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MANIAC USES KNIFE ON GROUP OF GIRLSI “Have to Kill Millions/’ He Shouts to Policeman.Cleveland, Ohio.—A knife wielding maniac killed one girl and slashed two others here when he ran wild among a group of children on theirway to school.The victims were Blaine Macken, eight, dead; Rose Marie Parker, eight; severely slashed; Lena de San. twelve, cut across the abdomen and throatThe madman. Jake Gordon, thirty-eight. was captured a few minutes later by a traffic policeman near the scene of the attack. Dropping at the feet of Patrolman Charles Mitschele, who came running toward him. the killer brandished a knife with a four inch blade and cried:Shoot me. Kill me. 1 killed two of them. But 1 haven’t killed enough.I have to kill more—lot more. I have to kill millions.Scores of men. women and school children stood frozen with horror at the attack then the throng of more than 100 sought to lynch the killer, but Mitschele kept the crowd back until re-enforcements arrived.Gordon is being held In the county Jail in a straigbt-JackeLThe children were on their way to school when they encountered Gordon, who had Just emerged from a barber shop.Questioned in the county jail, Gordon muttered: I killed them so they wouldn’t kill others when they grow up. I'll be forced to kill a million more. For a year and a half God has been after me to start.It developed that Gordon was under treatment In one hospital here for paresis and six weeks early in 1930 and another doctor had heen treating him for extreme nervousness. He was a carpenter by trade.
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The Eureka Mirror
Eureka, Montana, US
Tue, Jul 05, 1932
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