RECORD OF CRIME
APPALLING list in states EIGHTEEN HOMICIDES IN DAY MURDER ALL OVER COUNTRY FAMILY KILLED BY FATHER CHILD SLAIN WITH AN AXE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.10 p.m. New York, May 6. An exceptional number of murders and sensational homicides are included in today’s lists of crimes committed with violence, which ate reported from all over the nation.
A twenty-year-old gunman killed a policeman and a dance hall girl, then robbed a bank, and is believed to have shot his 16-year-old sweetheart. A man and a girl were found killed in New Jersey but there is no clue as to whom the murderers are.
From Akron, Ohio, is reported the murder With an axe of a little girl by an apparently maniacal woman. At Westfield, Massachusetts, the police arrested a respected church organist for the brutal “life insurance murder” of a friend. The bodies of five persons were discovered in a Mississippi farmhouse. They were, presumably killed by the father of the family. A Negro servant killed a banker and his wife in the same State. A young girl was unaccountably shot on a Cincinnatti street and died to-night. The police of New York shot two criminal suspects and two gangsters killed one of their companions. ‘
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1931, Page 7
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