FIENDISH MURDER.
LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH. KIDNAPPED FROM BED. United Service. NEW YORK, May 29. The shocking murder of a sevon-year-old girl, Dorothy Sielongski, is reported from Toledo. The child was sleeping in a room with her two sisters when a kidnapper entered and snatched her, struggling, from her bed. The sisters screamed and aroused their father, who ran out into the street. There he saw a motor-car driven away at full speed with his crying child. Twenty minutes latei the little girl's dead body was found. Slio had been struck with a hammer and also strangled. There were marks of' teeth on her legs. The body was deposited in the front porch cf the house of the child's own grandfather. The fiend who committed the crime again made his escape.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19960, 31 May 1928, Page 11
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