AMERICAN ITEMS.
*I7HTH* IjIA N AND N.Z. GABLE ASSOCIATION liVXOCKXT MAX SENTENCED. X low YORK. Dee. Ml. A man named Walter Wright, aged thirty, started on a career as a liaudit live years ago. In Xovetnher last lie "as role, .ag a bank in Dos Moines "lien a "-ntchinan named Grifl'eii disturbed him. \\ right shot him dead. Other men, entirely innocent, were arrested and convicted of manslaughter, and are to-day serving their sentences. Wright went from one crime to another, lint felt so badly that innocent men had been convicted that he wrote a careful account of the facts so that if he had the misfortune to die with his boots on, justice might still be done. On Christmas Eve Wright robbed a bank in New Orleans, mid to-day Detective Farrar killed the bandit while trying to arrest him at Mobile. Thousands of dollars in cash were found in his hell, together with the dramatic statement related above.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1925, Page 3
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158AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1925, Page 3
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