BRUTALLY MURDERED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 93, 3 April 1934, Page 9

BRUTALLY MURDERED

| Party of Six Men and Women TERRIBLE CRIME IN U.S. i By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 1. A message from Bremerton, Washington, states that the police are vainly searching for clues toi day in one of the most brutal robberies and murders ever recorded there in which Mr Frank Fleider, a wealthy retired grocer, of Bremi erton, his wife, three guests and a ■ maid were shot dead at Mr Fleld- ■ er’s palatial summer residence at Earlin Point, overlooking the Pacific, five miles from Bremerton, and the place looted. Neighbours, noting Air Fleider's limousine outside for three days with three French poodles locked inside it, hud their suspicions aroused. They entered the residence and found the bodies strewn in various parts of the house, some with their hands tied behind their backs and tape placed over their mouths and eyes. Broken beer bottles were scattered about the kitchen, the telephone had been torn from the wall, the furniture broken and pitched about, and the walls and doors scarred with bullets. The pockets of the dead had been turned inside out, and purses were scattered on the floor. The authorities ventured the opinion that the Fleiders were having a party, with drinks being served, when holdup men entered, tieing up the victims at revolver point, a general fight ensuing, probably when resistance was offered, and the robbers then shooting all six persons indiscriminately.