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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1928
Page
9
Mrs. Margaret Smith told Chicago police a man named Peterson lured her to a woods near Lake Forest under pretense of painting Indian life. He attacked with a hatchet while shouting threats of killing her as she screamed and pleaded.
Mrs. Smith describes being bound to a tree and subjected to a menacing tomahawk dance by a supposed artist named Peterson in a wooded Chicago area. Police hunt him as psychiatrists study the case for insights into emotional instability and anti social behavior.
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