GORILLA MAN’S TRAIL.
18 MURDERS LN TWO YEARS.
LATE INMATE OF ASYLUM.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 12
Eighteen murders of women and girls in the United States and Canada in the, last two years, nine of tnem 1 on the Pacific Coast, are charged against Earle Nelson, the “Gorilla Man,” Who will shortly be tried in Winnipeg. Arrested in that city on June 17, after a long search by police of both countries, he was charged with two murders in the vicinity.
He escaped, and after a further search was traced to Alberta, and there re-arrested after a desperate fight.
The victims were usually women managing residentials, the first being a San Francisco woman who was brutally done to death on February 20, 1926.
Police allege that he left a trail of murder along the coast in California, Oregon, and Washington, then headed east, and finally entered Canada. In each case the victim was strangled by compression over the larynx, but several bodies bore marks of other violence.
Arrested in 1921 for an attack on a 12-year-old San Francisco girl, Earle Nelson was sent to an insane hospital. He escaped, and the charge was later dismissed.
Nelsoon was born in San Francisco in 1897. His- father was an Englishman and his mother was a Spaniard.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5166, 17 August 1927, Page 2
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