WHOLESALE MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 7

WHOLESALE MURDER.

Boys Allegedly Guillotined On

Chicken Ranch.

APE-MAN PER VEST WANTED.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 11.30 a.m.)

VANCOUVER, September 19.

A Calgary message states that a woman suspected of being Sarah Louise Northcott, the mother of Gordon Stuart Korthcott, aged 21, an alleged ape-man pervert, who is accused of the murder it four boys on a California chicken ranch after horrible torture, has been arrested. She will face a murder charge. The father is held at Los Angeles as a material witness. Search is being made for a family of six who, it is feared, were also murdered. The case is known as "The Murder Farm." Human bones were dug up on the farm and a crude guillotine was found in the cellar of the Northcott house. These revelations were made when Jessie Clark, Saskatoon, applied to the United States authorities to deport her brother Sanford Clark, aged 15, and the boy, who is being held, told a sensational ■tory of wholesale killings. Gordon Northcott is still at liberty, despite a wide search of the continent, and is believed to be at Vancouver, masquerading as a woman.