MADMAN MURDERS FIVE
INCLUDING FAMILY OF FOUR SAVANNAH, Dec. 21.—County and city police to-day liutnehed an intensive' search tor a fmfdman who battered four members of? a family to death with an iron pipe, then killed a garage watchman with a shotgun on the outskirts of Savannah. Police listed the dead as: J. S'. Tillman, 3-3, a W.P.A. worker; his wife, Elizabeth. 28; their two children, Clara Pearl, 9. and, Viola. 7; and Tom Chester, 35, a night watchman. . The Tillman family was battered to death in a dilapidated cottage; 100 yds. in. the roar, of an auto repair garage one mile west of Savannah. 5
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 145, 13 February 1939, Page 4
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106MADMAN MURDERS FIVE Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 145, 13 February 1939, Page 4
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