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FUNERAL SERVICES FORFORMER TAYLOR WOMAN* il etKILLED IN HOUSTONII- ti-rS5-Oititgt-eHOUSTON, Feb. 27—(UP)- Funeral services will be held here tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for Mrs. Pauline Caporina, 25. identified as the former Miss Minnie B. Hack of Taylor, victim of one of the most brutal murders here in several years.Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery. Rev. Vaughn £'*.‘fel will officiate at services.Besides her husband, Joe Capor-ina, the yjung woman is survived by her mother, Mrs. Sarah Hack, a brother, Mike Hack, both of Taylor, and two sisters, Mrs. Osc.tr j Weils of Houston and Mrs. Besa j Ake of Dallas. jMrs. Caporinas beaten body was jfound In a ditch early Friday and police have attributed her death to resentment of underworld characters at her activities as a stool pigeon.it was learned she recently expressed fear for her life after giving officers information which .ed to the round-up of a bank roboery gang. Police also knew her as Pauline Johnson, arrested frequently as a vagrant.Her body, bearing signs of a terrific beating, was found early yesterday on th? outskirts of the city. Officers questioned her husband. Joe Caporina, used car salesman, who said he saw hts estranged wife alive the night before her body was found.----o--!
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Taylor, Texas, US

Sun, Feb 28, 1932

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