HOME SET ON FIRE
WOMAN AND CHILD PERISH. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Toronto, December 20. At Owen Sound (Ontario) a coroner’s jury found Melville Wilkey, aged 23, guilty of setting fire to his home and burning his wife and child to death to obtain 1000 dollars life insurance. Wilkey confessed to the police while awaiting trial.
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Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 11
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56HOME SET ON FIRE Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 11
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