ENGLISHMAN SHOT.
WIFE’S TRAGIC DISCOVERY. TWO WEALTHY MEN ARRESTED. SEQUEL TO A STRIKE.
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An Englishman, Norman Redwood, an official of the Tunnel Subway Workers’ Union, which is involved in a strike at a local sewer, was fatally shot from a speeding motor-car when he stopped ills own ear in front of his home. His wife, who was awaiting his arrival for dinner, heart’ the shots and ran out and found her husband crumpled over the wheel. Samuel Rosoff. a millionaire industrialist. and Max Friedman, an asso-
ciate. were arrested In connection with the ease. Rosoff refused to go to New Jersey and was released on his attor-
Thc police explain that. Redwood s union had. blocked work on a large eitv sewer which Rosoff s firm was
constructing. The motor-car in which the murderers drove lias been identilled bv witnesses as one believed to look like Friedman’s. The latter said he lent the. car lo a friend, who returned it before 6 p.m. The shooting occurred at 8 p.m.
Rosoff declared that lie and Redwood were I lie best of friends. He has offered 5000 dollars’ reward for the apprehension of the murderers.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20125, 22 February 1937, Page 7
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