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Steel Mill Official Slain Near North Girard Scout Camp
Charles P. Laird, official at Homestead Carnegie Steel Works, was found dead at the wheel of an automobile on a lonely road near Cambridge Springs. Four bullet wounds in his head prompted police to doubt robbery as motive. an Erie woman who was riding with him is sought. Laird, a scout leader and superintendent at multiple mills, had left Munhall with colleagues for a Boy Scout camp visit.
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W. H. Packer
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