DOUBLE MURDER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 21, 18 October 1937, Page 7

DOUBLE MURDER

-Press Aean.—

"There's No Death Penalty in Maine" YOUTH'S MACABRE CRIME

(By Telegraph-

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NEW YORK, Oct. 16. One of the most macabre double mufders in the history of crime in the United States is reported from North Arlington, New Jersey, following the arrest of Paul Dwyer, aged 18, who is charged with mnrder. Patrolmen found Dwyer sleeping in a car parked at the (Toadside in the early morning. A search disclosed that a rug covered jthe body of a woman in tha back seat ;and a body Of a man was locked in a rumble ttunk. They are Dr. and Mrs. James Littlefield, both aged 64, living at South Paris, Maine. Dwyer, in an alleged confessiou, said he believed himself ill and summoned Dr. Littlefield to his homo last Wednesday. Dr. Littlefield told him he was not ill, but made a statement concerning a girl with whom Dwyer was friendly. Dwyer then battefed and ' strangled the doctor to death aud forced the body into a trunk in Dr. Littlefield 's car. He drove to the home of his victim Knd persuaded Mrs. Littlefield that her husband had unexpectedly gone to Boston and wished her to follovr. Dwyer then drove for 30 hours, coveting 300 miles ia a preteUded search for her husband. Yesterday morning he strangled her and made for New Jersey. Pinally, he slept owing to exhaustion. Dwyer is alleged to have repeatedly told his questioners: "They can't hang or electrocute me, because there is no death penalty in Maine."