Three-Year-Old Hanged By Young Boys’ Crime Club
Head of a Chicago slum district boys’ Hangmen’s Noose Club, 15-year-old Robert Munday, has con_ fessed to the hanging of three year old Tommy Laux, who wanted to become the club’s mascot. “I was angry with Tommy because he kept after me to join the club,” Munday told the police. The hanging took place in the Hangmen’s Noose Club’s headquart„ ers, a dark' room, decorated with chalk drawings of executioners, scaffolds, men and boys dangling from nooses. Munday described how he helped the three year old victim up on a couch and put the heavy 1 noose around his neck. He then knocked him off the couch and let him dangle for 15 minutes until he was dead.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 24, 12 August 1949, Page 5
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