SENSATIONAL MURDER
SHOT IN CITY HALL.
lUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) (. .. VANCOUVER, July 16
A message from' Los Angeles states the City Hall was the scene of a murder which arose from an investigation of the notorious Julian petrol scandal, in which the public losses exceeded twenty millions sterling. Motley Flint,a millionaire, and leading financier, a former ■,postmaster of Los Angeles, had jiist finished testifying, and was stepping from the witness • stand when Frank Keaton,' an attorney and real estate .broker, is alleged to have shot him in the- neck,, killing him ; instantly. Keaton rendered.Flint was Viee-President of the Savings Bank-and.:charges were' pending against him involving the violation of his trust in connection with the Julian swindle; . Recently he returned from Europe to face the charges, and defied Keaton; v .c.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 5
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