DOUBLE MURDER

Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1931, Page 6

DOUBLE MURDER

BY UNKNOWN GANGSTER. (United Press Association—By Electro Telegraph. —Copyright.) NEW YORK, May 20. A sensation was caused at Eos Angeles by Liu> murder of Herbert tvpenrer, the former ehiel-01-stall of the “Evening Express,’ and the .serious wounding of Charles Carwiord a wellknown figure in political circles, by an unidentified gunman, who shot them duv.ii while they were conversing m Crawford's office at Hollywood. The assailant ran in through the front door and lin'd point blank at his \ ietims. Then be dashed out No motive tor the crime has been disclosed.

THE BEAL TILING

NEW YORK. May 21

Regarding the Herbert Spencer murder, Spencer, who was a veteran police reporter, told bis colleagues that he was going to got some underworld stud'.” He was conversing with Crawford when the gangster entered Crawford’s office and began shooting, afterwards escaping in a waiting motor-car. Crawford lingered a few hours, hut died on the operating table, saying that he knew who fired Hie shots, but he declined to give "the name. Last year, Crawford caused the arrest of .Morris Lavine of the “Examiner” newspaper." charging him with blackmail to the extent of fifteen thousand sterling.

Ravine was convicted, hut Crawford’s money is still impounded by the courts.