SIX PEOPLE MURDERED.
EVANGELIST AND FAMILY.
PERVERT WITH AN AXE.
FIENDISH CRIME AT DETROIT.
(Received July 5, 9.55 p.m.)
United Service. NEW YORK, July 4. Tlio most fiendish crime committed in America for many years was discovered at Detroit.
The bodies of Mr. Paul, an evangelist, his wife, thrco daughters, aged eight, nino and ten, and a son were found iti their home All had been brutally murdered. v
Mr. Paul was a religious fanatic. Evidently the murders wero committed by a pervert with an axe. Tho evangelist's head had been severed from the body and rested gruesomely on a chair. The wife's head also had been cut off. Tho daughters had been fearfully injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20300, 6 July 1929, Page 13
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