TRIPLE EXECUTION
CANADIAN MURDERERS GUILT PROVED BY RADIO WINNIPEG, Feb. 16 Convicted of beating t.o death an 81-year-old woman in the course of a burglary, three men, Peter Korenowski, Daniel Prytula and William Kanuka, wore hanged together. Desperate for funds after a series of carousals, the men had plotted to rob a 91-year-old farmer, Mr. Elko Cottick, believed to have wealth concealed. They broke into the farm-house; beating and trussing Cottick. His wife resisted and was fatally beaten. Arrested only as suspects, the trio supplied damaging evidence unknowingly by discussing the crime and making an agreement to tell the same story in Court, all the conversation being recorded through a radio sot hidden in the cells.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 13
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