“A PERFECT CRIME”
BUT MURDERER LEFT CLUE DETROIT, October 26. Edward M'Cann has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife, in what he believed was a “ perfect crime.” Following a quarrel,' M'Cann cut up his wife’s body and distributed the pieces in fields and ditches over a wide territory. Then his wife’s sister came to visit her, and she became suspicious when M'Cann himself disappeared from Detroit. With great persistence the Lister scoured the countryside. She discovered the fingers of the dead woman and identified them by means of the fingerprints taken by the immigration officials, for Mrs M'Cann was Canadianborn. . For 48 days M'Cann eluded those who were hunting him throughout the country, but finally was arrested. When confronted with the evidence of his crime he confessed, and was sentenced within three days.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 9
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