NEW YORK MURDER
NEGRO PORTERS) . ARRESTED ALLEGED ACCOMPLICES NEW YORK, Jan. 13 Two negro porters in the apartment house in which the murder of Mrs. Frank Case occurred yesterday have been arrested. The police state that one of the men will be charged with the actual crime and the other as an accessory in helping to dispose of a blood-stained shirt and in attempting to sell a suit of clothes. This latter fact led to the arrests.
Both men hncl been questioned earlier and released in order to permit detectives to observe their actions.
The motive for the crime is believed to have been robbery, although a suit and a wedding ring are the only articles missing from the apartment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22627, 15 January 1937, Page 9
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