MURDER IN THE WOODS
Brother and Sister Found with Thijoats Gashed (Reoeived 18, &,45 a,m.) NEW YQRK, May 17. The body of a girl, aged seven, with her thi'oat cut and the body burned. in an eflort to destroy it, was found by a young couple wandering jn the wpgds near a New York §uburhan oom® munity. Etalf-an-hpur iater a boy pf three, apparently he? brother, was found in a tbipket with his throat gashed, but alive, He was taken to hogpital and is expected to reeover, The police said that his almost intelligihle murmura indicated that bii mother and pogsibly his father were also slain somewhere in the woflds. A score of poliee ajdefl by 50 Boy Scouts with flashhghts eearched in vain for .other hodies but found a bre.adknife and scissors both gtained with blood, also a botfle quarter full of petrol. * The underbrush had been eet on fire in three places, but the green growth anfl th§ damp caused the flres to die quickly. #
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 7
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