MURDER AND SUICIDE.
WOMAN'S POOR AIM. . . • . CHICAGO. April 26. Wanda Stoj.a, a stenographer, who danced in "Far Into Bohemia," this week provided Chicago with ,one of tha most thrilling murders it has known for , months. The girl had been sharing a studio with Kenley Smith, advertising agent, and she wrote love letters to . him in short"handr When Smith tired of her she decided to kill him, his wife, and herself. On Tuesday, armed with a large revolver, the girl sought the Smiths' lakeside cottage, but. the bullets • *h& : . aimed at them killed Ronald Tanning, their faith- * ful gardener. .. . ' v . The police hunted her for four days, and to-night found her dead "suicidein a downtown hotel. She left 'voluminous shorthand notes, regretting that she bad not killed the Smiths. - *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18703, 8 May 1924, Page 9
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