TERRIBLE CRIME
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED DROWNED BY HUSBAND (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 22. An “American Tragedy,” so typical of crime in this country, is reported to have occurred again at Sutton (Massachusetts), where Newell Sherman (20), the son of a well-to-do family, the father of two children, a choir singer and Scoutmaster, took his 23-year-old wife canoe riding on Lake Singletary, and, after singing “ When I Consider the Work of His Hand,” upset the canoe and pushed the frantically clinging young woman under the water, and .when her struggles ceased swam 200 yards to the shore. He confessed he hoped to marry a sixteen-year-old girl with whom he was infatuated. Sherman, sobbing, explained: “When 1 stopped singing the thought to murder her came to my mind. I must have been crazy.” The crime is considered an almost perfect parallel to the American Tragedy made famous by Theodore Drieser.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22631, 24 July 1935, Page 9
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