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SUSPECT IS NABBED NEAR CRIME SCENEmm*-Cleveland Councilman toi Propose Reward for Human ButcherCleveland. Sept, 12, -(TP) -Police questioned today a 37-year-old sus* |pert, seeking a due to (lio decapl-} tatlon slaying* of nix poisons here]! within the last venr. i; At the sain** time. Council in an Joseph R. Aril raid In* would present a resolution to tin* city cotin-1 ell, urging it $1,000 reward for information lea dint? to arrest and con-.v let ion of the madman Iteheader Detectives llalph Kennedy and Leo Duftin of the police homicide -*]iiad arrested the suspect last night. He was “acting queerly/' said persons living less than Halt a , mile front the oily littD* stream call led Kingsbury Run where the latestbody was discovered Thursday.Five of the depraved killer’s vie-jtims. who included five m«n and, one woman, were tiiaroveml in the!i Shabby, desolate an*a on C'leve-^..land’s southeast aide, almost at theI Ibackdoor of the downtown districtAll were nude, and all beheaded. Police said Root hooks would heused again today to probe Ho* rookyI fxHtoill of the L foot deep poolwhere the latest torso was found. The search for the head and arms has been without result, and cities almost entirely lacking.investigators hoped tlu missing head would yield some clue to the ! identity of the victim, dead about IS hours before his torso was found. Detectives Orley May and (Jordon Shibley reported striking *‘fleshlike I objects” In the search yesterday,I but the angle* from which they were working prevented bringing the objects to the surface.A gray felt hat. found by Detective Inspector Joseph Sweeney a hundred yards from tin* stream, was one* of the slender c lues police* followed today.The* band was stamped lamdy's Smart Shop, Bellevue and police contacted haberdashers in the smallnorthern Ohio city.
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Washington C H Herald
Washington Court House, Ohio, US
Sat, Sep 12, 1936
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