CALIFORNIA MYSTERY
CORPSES IN TRUNK. DISSECTING REVEALED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LOS ANGELES, October 20A slight blonde woman, aged 27 years, the daughter of a Minister and the wife of a physician, is sought as the alleged perpetrator of a murder plot, in which two young women were killed, and their bodies were shipped in trunks from here to Phoenix ill Arizona. T he woman’s husband is under technical arrest. The brother of the supposed murderess told the police that the young woman confessed to him to the murder of two girls who worked with her at the Phoenix Medical Clinic
Railway station agents noticed that blood was seeping from the trunks which the woman brought with her to Phoenix, this resulting in the discovery of the murders, whereupon they traced the alleged killer by her automobile number.
Bullets apparently caused the death of one. The body had been expertly dissected, but the motives for the crime, the possible accomplices, and virtually all the other pertinent details are unknown.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1931, Page 5
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