AMERICAN CRIME.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 13 August 1921, Page 1

AMERICAN CRIME.

• BODY BURIED IN SAND.

Per Press Association —Copyright

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11

The body of the Rev. Father Heslin, Catholic priest, was found buried in the sand on Salada beach. There was a bullet hole through the heart and a crushed skill indicating murder.

The kidnappers did not receive the demanded ransom, and it is believed that they carried out their threats. SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS. NEW IUKk, August 11. A sensational development is re- ; ported in connexion with the Father | Heslin case. On August 2an excited, closely muffled foreigner, called 'at the rectory and induced Father ■ Heslin to accompany him on a visit ■ to an allegedly sick friend. ; Subsequently Archbishop Hanna ‘received a demand for Father Heslin’s : ransom. On Wednesday a mechanic named Hightower informed the police that he met a drunken foreigner, who declared that he had killed a man and indicated the place of burial. Hightower went to the spot and after digging, discovered Father Heslin’s body, shot through the heart. He had evidently been dead only a couple of days after being held prisoner.

There are several indications that the grave had been dug and the priest placed on the brink and then shot. The police are holding Hightower till they can investigate the disappearance of his alleged informant.