RICH MAN MURDERED.
BELL BOY’S DREADFUL CRIME. GRUESOME'-CONCESSION TO THE POLICE A gruesome story of Low he murdered his millionaire employer has been told by a bell-boy named Umbel, I? years of age. The boy, who is of weak frame and sallow complexion, has been a victim of the cigarette habit. He has given the police a type-written confession, in which' he states that the death of Mr. 11. Jackson, an aged Wall Street broker and millionaire, which has been .puzzling the, detectives, was caused by him. Geidel says, that he was discharged by Jackson, who refused to pay him the money due to him. He attempted to .chloroform the old man as he slept . But Jackson awoke whilst the murderer was thrusting a chloroformed rag down his throat. The old man struggled. But the boy hit him a. heavy blow on the head with a steel jemmy. “The chloroform,” the confession concludes, “did the rest,”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3292, 10 August 1911, Page 3
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156RICH MAN MURDERED. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3292, 10 August 1911, Page 3
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