AMERICAN ITEMS
.MURDER TRIAL
GIRL SHOOTS PRISONER.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ..
VANCOUVER, January 20
Jack Works, aged thirty, was tried for the murder of Cicero Spence. Ho explained he killed his victim in sen defence, and threw the body into iv.t Arkansas River. Helen Spence, the seventeen-year-old daughter of the dead man, listened to the evidence, and just as the jury’was about to rstire, she fired four shots into Works body, killing him in- ' the prisoner's clock, She claimed that AVorls shot her father in cold blood and threw the body into the river while ho wau still ftiive,
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1931, Page 5
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