HURLED TO DEATH
MOTHER AND CHILDREN
INSANE EX-SOLDIER'S ACT
NEW YORK, 21st June. Escaping from tho New York War Veterans? Hospital, whero he was held as actively insano, Raymond Spang, aged 36, an ex-serviceman, took his wife and four children to Westrock, near Newhavon, to celebrate his unexpected homecoming, and hurled them over a 400-foot cliff to their deaths. Spang gazed at the mangled forms for several minutes, while a crowd of ton thousand persons in the park below and squads of firemen and police, who woro summoned, stood helpless. | Then he leaped to his own death. j Tho'eldest of the children was a ten-year-old girl. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 9
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106HURLED TO DEATH Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 9
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