USED AN AXE.
FAMILIES WIPED OUT. MURDERERS' BRUTAL CONFES- , SION. BY CaBBB -PRESS ASSOCIATION- COPYRIGHI NEW YORK. Dec. 27. George Hassell, of Tuchou, Arizona, who two years ago married Ins brother's widow, has confessed that he killed her and eight children last week. He also confessed that he has obliterated ‘at least two other families, using an axe each. time. He said: “Five years ago I killed a woman with whom I lived and her three children when I got tired of her. I also killed two men in Oklahoma.’ Hassell added that he wished to die quickly.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 December 1926, Page 8
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98USED AN AXE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 December 1926, Page 8
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