“A PERFECT CRIME”
MURDERER LEFT A CLUE STREWN REMAINS DETROIT, o<*t. 25. Edward McCann has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his wife, in what he believed was a “perfect crime.” Following a quarrel, McCann 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 McCann himself disappeared from Detroit. With great persistence the sisterscoured the countryside. She dis-' covered the fingers of the dead woman and identified them by ; means-of- -the fingerprints taken by the immigration officials, for Mrs McCann was Cana-dian-born. For 48 days McCann 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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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 7
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