CRIMES IN AMERICA

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19758, 13 December 1935, Page 8

CRIMES IN AMERICA

A GANGSTER OUTRAGE. alcohol-runner MURDERED. OTHERS BOUND AND GAGGED. United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 13. 3.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 12. Another atrocious gangster killing occurred in the metropolitan area to-day, the murdered man’s sweetheart witnessing the crime. Two men arrived in a 3voma_n s apartment, and bound and gagged hei and a visitor who had come to close a deal with her lover. ' ; ™ who was an alcohol-runner who had been notorious since P™ hlbl t>°"; The assassins then waited patient!, for the woman’s brother' to arrive, and they 'bound him and laid him on the floor. 1 Then further footsteps were heaid outside the door. These the woman apparently recognised as those oi Maudel, and she kicked the door neai which she was lying. Maudel, growing suspicious, fled downstairs. The assassins went after him and riddled his body with bullets as he reached the street. They then escaped. The police found the woman, who, after the shooting, had somehow succeeded in loosening her cords, standing, screaming hysterically, beside the corpse.

PROFESSORS KILLED.

MECHANIC RUNS AMOK,

TRAGEDY AT UNIVERSITY.

United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 13, 3.0 p.m.) NSW YORK, Dec. 12..

A dental mechanic, running amok ■with a revolver, shot and killed an Associate Dean and an Associate Piofessor, and wounded another Associate Professor of Dentistry at the Columbia University’s College of Dental Surgery. He then turned the weapon on himself and committed suicide.

The slayer, who was fifty, years old, had been discharged earlier in the day for starting a flghl with another dental mechanic. The Associate Dean, Dr. Rowe, one of the dead men, was known to toe the slayer’s best friend, having had him reinstated five times after he had been discharged for having started fights with other mechanics during the four years in which he had been employed at the college.