Out To Kill Sixteen!

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1022, 12 July 1930, Page 18

Out To Kill Sixteen!

■ OLICE are convinced that a maniac who considers he lias a moral obligation to commit 16 murders is roaming the metropolitan area of New Y’ork. Already he has killed two men and he has threatened to strike again. In a letter to a newspaper he says that he will commit a murder immediately at College Point unless .he recovers some important papers, which seem to exist only in his disordered mind. Noel Sowley, a 26-year-old radio salesman, who was shot dead as he sat in a motor-car with a girl, is the latest vlctom of the murderer, who refers to himself as “Three X—The Man Behind The Gun.” Cowley’s body was discovered in a sparsely-settled place. On the lap of the dead man was a newspaper clipping describing the killing of Joseph Moyzuski, whose body was found a week previous in a parked car at Whitestone.. "Here's How” The murderer of Sowley had pencilled this grim toast on the margin of the clipping: “Here's how’”

Maniac's Dreadful Threat

Besides missing papers and code letters to the New York “Journal,” talking of 16 deaths, two beautiful girls—Miss Catherine May and Miss Elizabeth Ring—are involved. TUe former was in Moyzuki's car when he was killed and the latter was Sowley's companion. Detectives surmise that the murderer considers himself an avenging force, and that he thinks it is duty to kill the escorts of young women whenever he finds a couple together in a car. Polite to Girls The account given by Miss Ring to the police is similar in almost every respect to that related by Miss May. Neither could furnish an adequate description of the killer. In both instances he was extremely polite to the girls. He even escorted Miss Ring to a bus station, and told her to have no fear. Miss Ring said that she and Sowley were sitting in the car, when they saw a shadow behind it. Suddenly a man appeared on the left side of the machine, calmly opened the door, and fired twice at Sowley. Then he leaned over the body, and whispered: “Now you’ve got the same dose as the other fellow.”