MURDERS AND SUICIDES
SEVERAL IN WESTERN CANADA. FATHER CHOKES HIS CHILDREN. (United Proas Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, April 30. Murder and suicide stalked in Western Canada yesterday and to-day. At Vancouver Frank Martcri shot and killed Maggie La Fae, aged 24, a pretty dance champion, when she refused to leave her husband and to accompany, het slayer on a dance tonr. The.girl spent the nignt in an hotel room pleading with her killer. After the, murder Marteri shot himself dead.. ■ ' , ... . At Fort William a whole family, except the mother, was wiped out when Mike Walchen choked his three children • —(Charles (7), Francis (5), and Norman 2). ' The man’s body was later found on the railway The couple had been separated. / six-page letter, showing fiendish, cold-blooded cruelty, gave gruesome details of the killings, stating that the baby woke while Charles was being choked, and mnrmnred “ Mama.”—Australian Press Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20706, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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