LOST HIS REASON.
JIILLIONAIRE’S MADNESS.
RUNS AMOK IN CAR. Vancouver, Nov. 2*6. Kenneth Whiteside, a young millionaire, of New Haven, loved dainty Williford Wheaton so desperately that he lost his reason, and his relatives put him in a mental hospital. Early to-day Kenneth stopped taking the cure long enough to escape, steal an automobile, and kidnap his intended Eride. With a he entered her father’s house, and induced the girl to come outside and talk it over. " Then, flinging her into the car, he started a wiki ride. Whiteside knocked two milkmen off the highways as he tore through the Connecticut countryside at a speed of 60 miles an hour. Policemen on motorcycles chafed him through the busiest streets of Hartford. The crash came in the centre of the city, when he ran over a boy, killing him instantly, and then wrecked four motorcars, causing several broken leg# and arms. 'Finally the young millionaire’s car capsized. The girl was badly hurt, while Whiteside, a raving lunatic, fought the police.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1923, Page 7
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