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ICBTIIAUAN AND N.Z. OAF US ASSOCIATION. BIG FIRES. NEW YORK, March 18. Reports from Palm Beach, in Florida, state that two big tourist hotels, The Breakers and the Palm Beach, have been destroyed by fire. The loss of property is estimated at lour million dollars. Two persons, a man a. a woman were burned to death. A MINE DISASTER, NEW YORK, .March 18. Thirty-three men were killed in the Fairmont Mine explosion, which it is stated was caused hv ignited gas. The mine is in West Virginia, and from forty-two to fifty miners are entombed as the result of the explosion in the mine, which is the property of the Bethlehem Steel Company. It is believed that the men will he rescued alive. 'The explosion shook buildings twenty miles distant. The mine employs non-union labour. A MURDER SENSATION. NEW YORK, March 18. Chicago city has again been shocked by alleged murder revelations, threatening to arouse as great a horror as the former Leopold Loeb case. William Shepherd and Charles Fainian have ljeen arrested and charged with murder, by inoculation with typhoid germs, in connection with the death, last December, of William MeClintock, an orphan millionaire, aged *2l. William (Shepherd was his foster father, and the chief heir to McClutock. Fainian is a bacteriologist. Kaiiuan has confessed that he conspired with Shepherd to introduce typhoid germs into MeClintock ns soon as the victim had made a. will leaving his fortune to Shepherd, which ho did. Faiman’s confession gives the full details of how he instructed Shepherd in bacteriology anil the use of genus, etc., which Shepherd successfully applied, and MeClintock died of typhoid. . Fainian says that he was promised one hundred thousand dollars. The revelations are the result of the persistency of Judge Olson, whose brother -*' also died suddenly, after warning MoClintock against Shepherd. The authorities hail stopped the previous investigations into the cause ot McClinlock’s death, and had apologised to Shepherd.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1925, Page 2
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