AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

A DOCTOR KILLED. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). NEW YORK, April 14 -Mrs Margaret Willis, a handsome widow of Los Angeles, aged 35, visited the police headquarters and stated that on Friday Doctor Baldwin, a wealthy leading surgeon called at her apartment, and in attempting to resist Ids advances, she struck bis bead fatally with a poker. In order to dispose of the body she cut it up and placed it in a. trunk and with the assistance of a friend removed it in an automobile. Outside Los Angelos she dumped it over a bank. Willis accompanied the police to the scene of the dumping, where a trunk was found containing the dismembered remains. AN ANCIENT PYRAMID. (Received this day at 10.45 a.m.) .MEXICO CITV, April J 4. Doctor Deroeder (Director of Excavations) has reported the discovery, in one of the suburbs ol the capital, oi an ancient pyramid, possibly portion ol u cemetery, believed to be the oldest remains of the American continent. The discovery was made beneath one humped feet of lava. The remains belong to the Acchaic civilisation, and prove the builders were familiar with domestic implements. Two skeletons with dishes alongside them, were found in posit’Otis suggesting that they were overwhelmed by the molten lava.

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