To Regain Wife Man Kills Daughter
(Received 1 p.m.) WINNIPEG, January 26. A publicity stunt designed to avert divorce, which cost the life of his six-year-old daughter, was revealed with the arrest of Stephen Eiler, an unemployed carpenter. From ' a hotel Eiler telephoned the police saying that he feared trouble at his house because the telephone was not answered. The police found the child suffocated by a towel, apparently intended merely to gag her. In an adjoining room the housekeeper, Catherine Kyrluk, aged 24, was found bound and gagged. She told the police she was seized by a strange man, who -searched the home for papers. Under questioning b;- the police she finally confessed that Eiler . had planned the whole hoax, hoping that the resultant publicity would induce his estranged wife to abandon divorce proceedings and return home.
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Northern Advocate, 27 January 1939, Page 6
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