WAVE OF CRIME
PROBLEM CLEANED UP IN WASHINGTON CONFESSION BY NEGRO. NUMBER OF WOMEN BRUTALLY MURDERED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON. August 29. The police announced that a confession by Jarvis Roosevelt Catoe, a negio servant, 35 years of age, has solved a wave of sex crimes in the capital which caused Mrs Roosevelt to warn thousands of women clerks to beware of strangers. A Congressional investigation was also carried out, resulting in police reorganisation. The police said Catoe had confessed that he had sti angled two Government clei ks, a New York matron and four Negro women. Catoe also admitted having criminally assaulted six women. He is being questioned regarding crimes dating back to 1934.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6
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121WAVE OF CRIME Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 6
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