FIENDISH CRIME
COURTS DEATH AMARILLO, Texas, August 9. Attorney Payne has signed a confession that lie planted the infernal machine in the. family motor ear which killed his wife and son on June 27 last. Describing himself as the meanest man in the world, Payne said that he included his son in the death plot because he did not wish the boy to grow up like him. He killed his wife because of financial troubles, and the fear that she would learn of his relations with his stenographer. He said.he would make no court defence, and was willing to go to the electric chair. He had tried suicide, hoping to make death appear accidental, so that his two daughters could benefit by I lie insurance.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17346, 25 August 1930, Page 12
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125FIENDISH CRIME Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17346, 25 August 1930, Page 12
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