ANOTHER MYSTERY
FOR AMERICAN*LIST
YOUNG GIRL'S DEATH
SAN FBANCISCO, June 6. Another baffling mystery was1 added to the list of recent Pacific coast crimes of violence with the discovery at Sacramento of. the partly-burned body of Miss Virginia Johnson, aged 22, the daughter of ' the Californian State Treasurer (Mr. Charles Johnson).
Although the authorities said that Miss-Johnson was apparently dead before the fire was applied to her cloth; ing, which had been soaked with kerosene in a garage not far from her home, they hesitated to say that she had been murdered., The relatives, however,, are confident that the girl,did not commit suicide, although there was no evidence of a struggle. The police questioned three young men, but declared later that they had as yet found no solution 6-f-Jlte case.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 143, 19 June 1934, Page 6
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130ANOTHER MYSTERY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 143, 19 June 1934, Page 6
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