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AMERICAN MURDERS

AM AZJ NO REVELATIONS CH u ROHM AN SENTENCED NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—Former deputy-sheriff Fiaucis Oarroll, aged -JtJ, scoutmaster and church worker, has. been sentenced to gaol lor life 53 for the murder of Dr. James Littlefield, at New Jersey. Paul Dwyer, aged 19, sweetheart of Cairoii’s daughter, Barbara, aged 17, already serving a life sentence for tlio same crime, committed in December, last year, pleaded guilty to strangling Littlefield and Mrs. Littlefield. Subsequently lie charged Carroll with both murders, declaring that he had pleaded guilty througn fear of attempts on his own and his mother’s lives. Oarroll has been tried only for Littlefield’s death. Barbara, according to< Dwyer, provided the climax to a ‘passionate love affair by confessing in letters that she had previously had relations with her father. Dwyer set the stage for murder by telling Carroll that he had the letters. Dwyer gave evidence that, because of Carroll’s throats and demands for the letters, lie had sought Dr. Littlefield’s aid. When the doctor confronted Carroll in Dwyer’s home, Carroll murdered him. Carroll’s delenyc was an alibi. The trial receiv eel amazing publicity. Pretty Barbara was self-possessed thioughoiit. The newspapers are daily filled with fresh photographs of her, chiefly in bathing suits and play-suits. % During the trial she signed post* cards, which sold at 25 cents (Is.), of which she received 10 cents. She has hern deluged with offers of marriage and may accent a job at a cabaret. While her father was being sentenced, she. was at a cinema, after having visited a beauty parlour. It is expected that Dwyer will he pardoned.

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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 111, 18 November 1938, Page 4

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AMERICAN MURDERS Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 111, 18 November 1938, Page 4

AMERICAN MURDERS Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 111, 18 November 1938, Page 4

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