CALLOUS MURDERS
BY MATRIMONIAL AGENT. Widow and children. (United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright]. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m) ..^ i VAN^6UYEßi..'''Al l 'g 29. A mob of 'would be lynchers tried to seize Cornelius Pierson, aged. 45, who was lodged Gn gaol at Clarksburg, >*est Virginia, for? the murder-of the widow Etcher,- and .her. three children. Pierson conducted • , a matrimonial agency. The widow arrived in May and disappeared iin .June with • her-: children;. The police found the bodies in a .tunnel under a.,concrete garage whence a trap door led to the tunnel. The body of ,an unidentified woman •was found later.' It is• believed to be that of another -widow. whom entrapped and killed after getting her money. The Richer victims were slaughtered with an axe,
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1931, Page 5
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