AMERICAN ITEMS.
CHICAGO GANGSTERS
WOMAN’S PREDICAMENT
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
VANCOUVER, Nov. 4
Miss Margaret Welch, who is the chief witnes against sixteen men, that ore charged with gang terrorism m Chicago, faces a tragic problem. Her brother has been kidnapped by the gangsters, who threaten to kill him if she continues her testimony, the gangsters adding that they will got her also later. To-dav she collapsed in the court, crying: “I can’t go on! They will kill my brother!” 'The court then adjourned in order to give the police time to hunt the kidnappers.
awful crime.
BY REJECTED SUITOR
VANCOUVER. Nov. 2
U Santa Rosa, California, Charles Barker, a rejected suitor, fatally shot his inamorata. Cammilie Bertola and killed her mother and father with an •ixe and then shot himself amidst the’ flames of the family dwcHin-. which he had set afire. All ot the bodies were found in tlie burning debris.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1928, Page 5
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154AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1928, Page 5
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