WHO DIED FIRST
MURDER MYSTERY IN VANCOUVER. MILLIONAIRE AND SECRETARY. CAREFULLY PLANNED CRIME. f’U.P.A by Elec. Tel Copyright' VANCOUVER, May 14, Queer circumstances are associated with the murder of Albert Ridley, an aged millionaire land speculator, and his secretary, Lee Weinstein, in the basement of their office. Weinstein was Ridley’s second secretary to be murdered. A former secretary was killed in exactly the same manner by ibo same calibre bullet. The police fear that there is no method of proving which died first. The murders were so carefully carried out that they are difficult to solve. Ridley, who lived a monastic existence, left £40,000 in his will to Weinstein if the latter survived him. Weinstein left two wives who promise to sue the octogenarian 5 s estate for a substantial division.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11945, 16 May 1933, Page 5
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