MURDER FARM.
; SOME SENSATIONAL stories, (Received This Day, at noon), VANCOUVER, Sept. 13. A message from Calgary says a wo* man has been arrested suspected of Wing Sarah Louise Northcott, the mother of Gordon Stuart Northcott, aged 21, the alleged, ape man and pervert,, accused of the murder of four boys on a_ Californian chicken ranch after horrible torture. The woman also faces a murder charge. The father is held at Los Angeles as a material witness. A search is being made for a family of six who it is feared have been murdered. The case is known as; the Murder Parxn. Human bones have been, dug up on the farm and a crude guillotine found in a cellar of the Northcott house. The first* revelations Were made when Jessing Clark, of Saskatoon, applied to the United States authorities to deport her brother Sanford Clark, aged 15. The boy on being arrested, told a sensational story of killings. Northcott is still at liberty despite a continental widri : searck and it is believed he is in Vancouver masquerading as a woman.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 September 1928, Page 8
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