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MAN’S HOAX TO AVERT DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS DEATH OF SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER rD.PA.-Bv Electric Teleuraph-CJopmehU (Received 27th January, 1.45 p.m.) WINNIPEG. 26th January. 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 that he feared trouble in his house because the telephone had not been answered, and the police found the child suffocated with a towel. apparently intended merely to gag her. In an adjoining room the housekeeper, Catherine Kyrluk, aged 2«, was found, bound and gagged. She told the police that she was seized bv a strange man searching the home for papers. Under questioning she finally confessed that Eiler planned the whole hoax, hoping the resultant publicity would induce his estranged wife to abandon divorce proceedings and return.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 January 1939, Page 5
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