MURDERED AT CITY HALL
SENSATION AT LOS ANGELES
NOTORIOUS PETROL SCANDAL
WITNESS SHOT AT INQUIRY
By Telegraph—Preee Ae*n„—Copyright
Los Angeles, July 15.
The City Hall was the scene of a murder which arose from an investigation into the notorious Julian petrol scandal, in which the public losses exceeded £20,000,000.
Motley Flint, a millionaire and leading financier, a former postmaster at Los Angeles, had just finished giving evidence and was stepping from the witness stand when Frank Keaton, attorney and real estate broker, is alleged to have shot him in the neck, killing him instantly. Keaton surrendered to the police. Flint was vice-president of a savings bank and charges were pending against him involving the violation of his trust in connection with the Julian swindle. Recently he returned from Europe to face the charges and defied Keaton. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1930, Page 11
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