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Woman tells of gang murder during slumming night
Irene Willard says she witnessed her friend Gladys Seeley’s throat slashed and body dumped from a car after a two day captivity in a Central avenue den. She arrived at Newton Street station badly beaten and exhausted, claiming the assailants were a group of negroes and that she escaped barefoot.
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