Murdered Four Youths To Get Eight Shillings

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6628, 15 August 1931, Page 5

Murdered Four Youths To Get Eight Shillings

THREE MEN GAOLED FOR LIFE United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. Received Friday, 11.0 p.m. VANCOUVER, Aug. 13. An enraged mob of 2000 stormed the city hall, which acts as a gaol in the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan, threatening to lynch Thomas Blackstone, a negro giant, and Fred Smith, a white man, following their confession of the massacre of two boys and two girls in a motor car along the Ann Arbor road two nights ago. Troops were called out and aided the police to hold tho mob in check. Blackstone, Smith and Oliver Torch pleaded guilty at a'special evening session of the Court and were sentenced to life imprisonment, as there is no capital punishment in Michigan. Smith is an ex-eonvict, and the iinding of his revolver led to the identilication of the murderers, who got only 8/ from their four young victims.

A cable yesterday stated, that at Ann Arbor, Michigan, four motorists, all under 20 years of ago, were murdered and their bodies placed under tho rear seat of the caT, which was then burned. A local farmer saw the tracks of another ear leading away from the scene. The police were of the opinion that the victims were returning from a cinema when they were waylaid and xobbed.