TWO MURDERS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 November 1924, Page 5

TWO MURDERS

PROBLEM FOR POLICE

A LOS ANGELES CASE. CHICAGO BOOTLEGGER SHOT. 8Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COP Y RIGHT (Received Nov. 13, 8.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 12. The police at Los Angeles are engaged in a mysterious murder case. Six years ago Harry Katz, aged 26, arrived, and claimed to be a Russian closely connected 'with the Czar’s family, His identity was never traced, but he was fabulously rich. He recently increased his fortune greatly by property speculation and diamond speculation. The police state that Katz was called at midnight into the ante-room of his magnificent apartments, where the assassin after speaking a few words shot him dead. Katz was a man of many loves. Among his letters were found a number from a well-known actress. The whole affair is a mystery. The police at Chicago are seeking to unravel the murder of Daniel Obannion, who reputedly made 1,000,000 dollars in the bootlegging business. Obannion was called out of the store where he sold funeral wreaths by three gunmen; who shot him dead and escaped. It is reported that the gunmen were former associates of Obannion, and that the crime was the outcome of -his informing upon them.— .Sydney Sun.