Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1938 — Page 18

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Girl's

Viti Lured to Death _ By Offer of Job as Stenographer.

: BURG, Pa., Dec. 22 (U. P.) —Authorities

‘whose nude body was found trussed ‘in a here, had been kidn dered by a white slave ring. The suspicion was based on a simi-

“larity of the technique used by Miss|| kidnaper and the known} s of a white slave ring|| which has operated in wilkes-Barre ||

operati

-girls seeking, employment ~ agencies,

violence.

The man who lured Miss Martin |

from her home in Kingston Satur-

‘day was offering her a job as aj

stenographer. Nathing more Was ‘heard of her until a trapper found ‘the gunny sack partly submerged beneath a bridge on Williamsport

Road near here and. 12 miles. from | Kingston. He dragged it ashore and|

> called police. Miss Martin's body was mutilated,

“suggesting -that she had been tortured either by white slavers seeking to force here intp commercial im“morality or by a sexual maniac. An autopsy will determine the cause of death. It was indicated that she| had died of strangulation or drown-

"ing.

_ She was the daughter of a mine - foreman, John Martin, who also is| a minor political personage well ‘known through the Wilkes-Barre - district. Her reputation in the com-| ' munity was that of a good, quiet “ girl. She was a brilliant student and recently graduated with honors from She had been : discouraged by a fruitless search for I work and when /a man telephoned

.a business college.

* her home Saturday, she was elated, * pelieving she was about to get a job.

> That was the las} time she was seen

> alive.

: Searching parties had combed the + entire area since Sunday and au- - thorities believed that .the sacked ". body had been thrown into the creek =~ recently, perhaps only a few hours

~ before it was found.

The condition of the body indi * cated that she had not been dead

. more' than a day. Maj. William A. Clark, State Motor » Police Commander,

- the area. ‘Marks Found on Throat’

3 place its graduates in jobs.

At the undertaking establishment . of County Coroner Ray W. Greenwood an autopsy was performed on Miss Martin's body by Drs. H. Gor-

don Guyler and A. B. Davenport.

Dr. Greenwood said the cause of

: death apparently was strangulation

but that “laboratory tests will have

. to be made to make sure.”

“Fingerprints were found on the

throat,” the coroner said. “She was badly beaten, perhaps with a rock. There was a long slash on her Rios men and one eye was blackened It was established that the girl had been criminally attacked, and that her slayer apparently attempted to dismember the body and then decided to secrete it instead. | Marks on the body indicated that

suspected today .that 19-year-old Margaret Martin, | |

y sack in a creek near aped and mur- |

hite slavers got names Of || ork from legitimate | interviewed | them privately, offering first steno-| _ graphic work, then very large pay | ‘if they would voluntarily enter dis-| _orderly houses. In some cases, it was | said, these girls had either been gi threatened or subjected to physical |

7 THURSDAY, DEC, 2, 1038

Killing Blamed On White Slave Rin Body Found i in Sack

“THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .

Margaret Martin

2, Crazed Killer of Five

a terrific struggle took place. Major Clark said she probably had been Ikilled between 10 a. m. and 4:30 |

ordered 270 troopers into a [uorongn search of | | There are three other children in | | the family, Mary, 18; Helen, 15, and

Police efforts to trace the man John, 12.

: who -telephoned| Miss Martin have - all failed. It was believed that he . had obtained her name from the Wilkes-Barre business school which + she attended and which tries to

'p. m. Saturday, the day she disaps eared. “The body was in an excellent state of preservation,” Maj. Clark said, pointing out that this might ‘have been the result of the body being immersed in the cold water. He said, “It was only an accident that she was found. She might have lain there 20 years: without | being seen, if the trapper hadn’t come along.”

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man ‘who identified himself as “R. P. Davis.” The caller said he was in

the insurance business and desired |

a stenographer, and Mr.

Dodson recommended Miss Martin :

Hunted by Posse

SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 21 (U. P.). _A crazed killer, who hammered |E to death a family of four with an iron pipe in a ramshackle home on the outskirts of this city and then nearly blew off the head of a garage watchman as he fled into the marshes below here “tonight, was hunted by a. sheriff’s posse. The identity of the madman was not known and police said there was no apparent motive. for the crime—one of the bloodiest in police annals here.

Son, Police Get Father To Confess Killing

LOS ANGELES, Dec, 22 (U. P.) — Police congratulagged 19-year-old Billy Spinelli today. By persevering, by never saying die, he got his father to confess that he had killed his mother. . Detectives helped too. They and Billy had been questioning ihe dwarfish William Spinelli Sr., 54, Yor more than 24 hours and had |

|nowhere. At last the policemen . ot

had been raking the ashes from the Spinelli incinerator came back with two false teeth and a dental bridge and these were exhibited to the

1 ; dwarf huddled ina chair in the

|the father, leaping for his son. Po-

fight. She hit me with the hatchet.

haired widowed mother of three

today faced. a murder

children, beating her

homicide bureau. > ge. as a result of “Those teeth are Mom's” claimed Billy.

“You're lying, you—," ‘screamed

excause. she: afraid to face| Christmas.” "The slim, 38-year-old: woman had lain: awake all night and gone into the bedroom where her youngest daughter, Caroline, was sleeping and beat her to death with a 20-pound mallet. Then, aghast at what she had done, Mrs. Bowers rushed upstairs to the apartment of a woman living above her and gasped: “I've killed Caroline.’

PROGRAM PLANNED | BY GOSPEL CHURCH|

The Gospel Holiness Church at! 1009 Harrison St. founded in November, will present its Christmas program tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. at the church. s The p m will consist of the Nativity. play and ‘oarols sung: by the children.’

BELZER TALKS TONIGHT F. O. Belzer of Indianapolis, Boy Scout chief executive, will speak on “The Fun of Scouting” at a Christmas party for four troops tonight at

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lice restrained him, he got a. grip on himself, then said: “yes, T killed Rosy. We had a

I kicked her in the stomach. She/ went down and dropped the hatchet. 1 grabbed her and smashed her head twice. That killed her.” “I knew Pop was guilty right along,” Billy said. . Police said they would ask for a first degree murder complaint.

Kills Wife, Then Takes Own Life

PEORIA, Ill, ‘Dec. 22 (U. P.)— Mrs. Nellie Conner, 47, was preparing breakfast today when her divorced husband, George Arvi, 48, fired a shotgun blast through the glass panel of the back door, killing her instantly. Then he ran around the corner of the house and a short distance along the alley before placing the muzzle of the weapon against his head and killing himself. Police said the couple had been quarreling for several weeks and that botlt were placed under peace bonds a week ago.

‘Afraid of Christmas,’ Mother Kills Gig, 6

WATERBURY, Vt. Dec. 21 (U. P.) .—Mrs. Mildred Bowers, a dark-|:

Chief clues to the identity of the! killer were the rope and burlap bag! in which the body was wrapped. Benjamin K. Lee, hemp products] expert, was directed to trace the! source of the bag and rope. Mi-| croscopic examinations were to be made of the ground around the spot for other clues. No trace of the girl’s clothing was discovered. Maj. Clark said he hoped that closer inspection of the body might Gisclose fingerprints. Automobiles were prevented from using the roadway near the scene in order to preserve any tire tracks. After the girl’s mother had identified the body, she said: “We are relieved that our daughter has been found, and is not being |theld a prisoner. We would rather + know she is dead than believe she was in the hands of white slavers.” The mother was near collapse.

It was by the merest chance that the body was discovered. Anthony Rezykowski, 19-year-old trapper, slid down the bank of Keelersburg Creek to set a trap when he saw the girl's hand protruding only a few inches above the water. He dropped his traps and ran to a nearby farmhouse, where he telephoned to authorities. Lee Dodson, principal of the| business school from which - Miss] Martin recently was graduated, told » lguthorities he had received a telephone call early Saturday from a

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