TRIPLE MURDER
LAW MOVES SWIFTLY GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.), April 8. Within 12 hours of his arrest for a triple murder, Henry Bedford, the middle-aged principal of a high school, confessed to the crime and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Bedford had lived with a family named Bengert and was said to have become too friendly with Mrs. Bengert. Following a violent quarrel in her husband’s absence, however, he choked her to death, and then killed her two children.
Bengert returned just afterwards and giving Bedford a knock-out punch, sent tor the police. The Michigan law does not provide foi capital punishment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 5
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