Charged with Strangling Girl, Suitor Babbles Strangely of God
Received 9.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Monday. PEARIj BAOHOLE, a beautiful art teacher aged 20, was strangled early on Monday morning, after a night of prayer with her suitor, Dennis Barclay, 22, scion of a wealthy English family, in his room. Barclay was charged with murder. He was incoherent and babbled; “I don’t know what happened; but know the Lord loved Pearl. The Lord loved little Pearl. I bad a vision of the Lord, and the Lord spoke to me and told me that he loved her. The Lord said Pearl was to be the mother of Christ, and she had conceived, and would bear Christ.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 1
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113Charged with Strangling Girl, Suitor Babbles Strangely of God Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 1
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