MODERN DEEMING’S END

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19584, 14 September 1925, Page 8

MODERN DEEMING’S END

MURDER AND SUICIDE. LOS ANGEJ.ES TRAGEDY. LOS ANGELES, August 27. Dr Thomas W. Young, the dentist, who in murdering his wife, Grace Young, outdid in science the Leoi>old and Loob crime, committed suicide this morning by strangling himself with a piece of wire, while in his cell. He was arrested in June, after a four months’ search for hi.s wealthy, beautiful wife, who had .mysteriously disappeared after a roadhouse party. She was the widow of Mr Grogan, the millionaire oil king. At first Young said that his wife had left him to get a divorce, but later he confessed that he had asphyxiated the woman with somnoform, a deadly dental gas, and then entombed the body in concrete in a cistern, whore the detectives found the remains, porfeotoly preserved. Later, Young pretended to be insane, and one of the most sensational trials ever heard in California courts was proceeding when Young took his own life. Mrs Young disappeared in February, and the police, taking their cue from the M ‘Clintock-Shopherd case, became suspicious when they found that her 19-voar-olcl son by her first husband had been induced by Young to make a will 'in his (Young’s) favour. These suspicions they regarded as confirmed when ihev were informed by Young’s office assistant that her employer had made her a present ot a valuable ring which his wife used to wear. On being taken into custody. Young was denied food by the police, and eventually he said that, if he were taken “down town" and given a good dinner he would toll everything. And he did, even to how he had got his stop-son to mix the eemont m which the woman’s body was hidden.