FLIGHT OF WITNESS ARRANGED BY POLICE
“Murder Farm” Case
CANADIAN GIRL BUNDLED OYER BORDER RELATIVE OF ACCUSED. United Press Association—By Eleotri* Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, Oct. 9. ■ Jessie . Clark, aged 10, the Canadian girl whoso startling disclosures brought about the arrest of her uncle, Gordon Stuart Northcott, on sensational murder charges, made a dramatic flight at midnight on Sunday across tho border, The girl was bundled into a high-pow-ered car, and disappeared before the officers were aware she had gone. It is .reported that agents of Northcott in California, engineered the coup to prevent the girl from giving testimony in the Northcott case, in which Gordon Northcott and his mother await extradition on charges of the murder of four boys at a chicken ranch near Pasadena. ' • A later report indicates that the flight was engineered by the California police to prevent any recantation of the statement at the extradition proceedings.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6735, 11 October 1928, Page 8
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