MURDER & SUICIDE
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(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) VANCOUVER. April 30. Murder and suicide stalked Western Canada yesterday and to-da.v. ,At'Vancouver, Frank Mnrteri shot and killed Maggie La Fae, aged 24, a pretty dance champion, when she ret used to leave her husband and accompany the,slayer on a dance tour. The girl spent the night at an hotel room pleading with her killer. After the murder, Marten shot himself dead. At Fort William a whole family, except the mother, were wiped out when Mike Walchen choked three children, Charles, aged seven, Frances, aged five, and Norman, aged two. The man’s hotly was later found on a railway track. The couple had been separated. A six-page letter, showing fiendish, cold-blooded cruelty, gave gruesome details of the killings, stating the babj woke when Charles was being murdered and murmured “ Muma.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 5
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