MURDERED BY CHUM
DISAPPEARANCE OF BOV SOLVED (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 19th December. A . three-months-old mystery, the disappearance of Francis Laino, ten-year-old son of Dr. Frank Laino, was solved by the confession of a chum, John Macari, aged 13 years, who;was recently sent to the State Training School for Boys as an incorrigible. Macari said that he murdered Laino by striking him on the head with a lead pipe after a quarrel, and hid the body in an abandoned tenement. The police found the body in a narrow clothes closet on the fourth floor. The father was unable to identify the body, but said that the clothing resembled his son’s.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 December 1936, Page 9
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