BEATEN TO DEATH
\IG MT CLUB BN T ERT AINLi t SLAIN. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel, Copyright'/. (Received Juno ‘3O. o p.ntA CHICAGO. June 29. Creeping into a room where she and a son aged seven slept, a. neg-io or marked man cartv to-day beat a 25-year-old night club* entertainer u her death with' a brick a del fled, after scrawling the words “Black Legion Game” with lipstick on the mirror, There was a skull and crosshones underneath the Avriting. Tho child. James Castle, in Lie dawn hours after the attack, stumbled sleepily to t]jio lobby of the hotel where he arid his mother Mrs. Lloroneo Castle acre staying, and told of the attack.
Tho boy said that lie awoke to see a man bonding over his mother, alternately choking her and bitting her on .the head with a trick. The woman’s purse was emptied. The child bceatna so frightened that ho did not try to ,rot up at tho time of the attack. He then fell asleep Later awakening and seeing his mother covered tvitli blood lie gave tho alarm.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12902, 1 July 1936, Page 5
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