PHANTOM KILLER

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1934, Page 3

PHANTOM KILLER

NEW YORK POLICE PUZZLED NEW jYORK, July ;5. A phantom killer, who snipes his victims from roofs in dark alleys, leaving. 22-calibre bullets as the only trace of him, has been puzzling the New York police. This mystery ' sniper claimed two more victims one night recently, bringing the total to four people shot in different parts of the city.

Recent victims were Macognane and William' Badalamante, both with- criminal records. Macagnono was wounded while walking along the Bowery. Only a few hundred yards from the scene of the previous shooting, Dadalamante staggered into a drug store near by ■with a bullet in his back. He said he was walking along when he felt a sudden pain. Mrs Yetta Einhorn, mother of three children, was killed as she chatted! with neighbours in front of her husband’s bakery. A post-mortem- showed- that the bullet, of a similar calibre to those that claimed the other victims,, was fired from an altitude. The following day a. plateglass window of a sh-op- near Einhorn’s was shattered by a similar bullet. The latest victim was Nathan Ellentuek, who fell' dead near the caddie bouse of a New York golf course, another victim of the sniper. In his body, again-, a .22 bullet was found.