FATAL “STUNT”
MAN SUFFOCATES LITTLE DAUGHTER. ATTEMPTED HOAX TO AVERT DIVORCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) WINNIPEG, January 26. A publicity “stunt” designed to avert divorce, which cost the life of his six-year-old daughter, was revealed with the arrest of Stephen Eiler, an unemployed carpenter. From a hotel, Eiler telephoned the police saying he feared trouble in his house because the telephone had not been answered. The police found the child suffocated with a towel, apparently intended merely to gag her. In an adjoining room, the housekeeper, Catherine Kyrluk, aged 24, was found bound and gagged. She told the police she had ben seized by a strange man searching the home for papers. Under questioning, she finally confessed that Eiler had planned the whole hoax, hoping that the resultant publicity would induce his estranged wife to abandon divorce proceedings and return.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 6
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144FATAL “STUNT” Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 January 1939, Page 6
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