GORILLA MAN HANGED
STRANGLER OF TWENTY WOMEN DECLARED HIS INNOCENCE h» Cable.—Press A ssocia t io n.—Copyrigh t. Reed. 9.5 a.m. WINNIPEG, Friday. Earle Nelson, strangler of over a score of women in the United States and Canada, was hanged here this morning. He maintained his innocence to the tost.— A. and N.Z. Earle Nelson, the “Gorilla Man,” was on November 7 found guilty of murder!r*M Mrs. Patterson, a pretty Irish woman had recently arrived in Canada, and •oa Cowan, a fourteen-year-old flower girl. Known < tho “Gorilla Man” and “The narr.an Strangler,” Nelson was alleged to " av ® murdered by strangling twenty-two .k Cm r t n . and children in various parts of mted Statea and Canada. ( inroughout the trial he maintained an bnrf 88 # att hude, broken only by outursts of laughter at some particularly 8 n p * ece evidence. ..e defence entered a plea of insanity rii:. 5 ’ 0 ?' 8 wl te said that he had been , and had to be confined in He wn". 1 Jacket owing to his violence. L.J 80 a P*d from the prison and had since a wan <lering about the country.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 252, 14 January 1928, Page 1
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