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CHICAGO, Friday (A.A.B.)—Police yes terday held two youths for questioning in a biz arre murder, the third insolved Chicago bill ing in less than 48 hours. The victim, Gertrude Lewandowski, 40, was found huddied, dead, wt’ the base of a holy’ water font in the donway of a Catholic [Ehurch’ on Wednesday night, some hours after she had gone here to pray for help yin finding a jib. She had been stabbed 64 times. A coroner's investigator said th ‘killer apparently crept up on the woman, if she knelt in a few sirews from the altar rail, then ap parently forced her to the side door and down three steps where she put up a fortific struggle for her life. The body was left near the font. A housewife later aid he san ntegra run from the church. Police also are seeking gangstile assassins who kid napped @ hirs car driver on Tuesday and took him for a one way “nde” sikh who shot down a conviled da codes peddler and gambler jon Wednesdays =
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