BODY IN CISTERN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 91, 16 June 1925, Page 5

BODY IN CISTERN

A LOS ANGELES CRIME. WOMAN'S DISAPPEARANCE. POLICE SOLVE MYSTERY. (Sun Cable.) (Received 12.5 p.m.) New York, June 15. Two years ago, Mrs Grogan, of Los Angeles, lost her husband, who l«tt a fortune of two million dollars, which was made through oil speculating. The widow, who had a nineteen-year-old son, Patrick, later married Thomas Young, a leading Los Angeles dentist. Mrs Young mysteriously disappeared in February last, since when the police kept a watch on Young, finally arresting him on a charge of murdering his wife. After his arrest, Young made a confession, in which he stated that he had killed his wife and ■ placed hor body in a cistern near their country bungalow, which Patrick, without any knowledge that the crime had been committed, assisted himi to fill with cement.

After the confession the police visited the bungalow and unearthed the body from the cement. The police were long baffled by the cleverness with which Young concealed the crime. Eventually they obtained a clue through a diamond ring which he had removed from the dead woman's finger, and presented to h»s girl,' an office assistant, and the girl handed it over to the police.