MURDERER’S CLUE.
Edward McCann has been sentenced at Detroit to life imprisonment for killing his wife, in what he believed was a “perfect crime.” Following a quarrel, McCann cut up his wife’s body and distributed the pieces in fields and ditches over a wide territory. Then his wife’s sister came to visit her, and she became suspicious when McCann himself disappeared from Detroit. With great persistence the sister scoured the countryside. She discovered the fingers of the dead woman and identified them by means of the fingerprints taken by the immigration officials, for Mrs McCann was Canadianb°For 48 days McCann eluded those who were hunting him throughout the country but finally was arrested. When confronted with the evidence of his crime he confessed, and was sentenced within three days.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 2 November 1933, Page 12
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129MURDERER’S CLUE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 2 November 1933, Page 12
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