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STAMFORD, Conn., June 12— (AP)—A burglar suspect was partly identified today by Mrs. Benjamin P. Collings of Stamford, as one of two men who in 1931 boarded the Collings yacht in Long Island Sound and beat her husband to death. At the time of the assault Mrs. Collings said two men boarded the ship, bound and killed her husband, tossed his body overboard and then abducted her, leaving behind on the drifting yacht their 65-year-old daughter, Barbara. Mrs. Collings later was placed ashore and noti fied police. “I've looked at a score of men ar rested in various parts of the coun try since 1931, said Mrs. Collings today as she confronted Frank Dreger, 61, “and this is the only one who resembled in the least the old man who came on our boat.” The suspect, Dreger, who gave New York as his address was moved to the Bridgeport jail late today after a bench warrant charging burglary was issued in Fairfield county superior court naming him and Joseph Guarino, 20, of New York, arrested with him in Darien Sunday. Meanwhile, District Attorney Bar ron Hill, of Suffolk county, Long Island, who two years ago worked on the Collings case, conferred with the Connecticut authorities on Mrs. Collings’ statement that Dreger's profile looked “just like that of the old man who boarded our yacht.” While Guarino also was paraded before her in Stamford’s police sta tion, Mrs. Collings said he was too stout to fit the description of the other man who boarded the yacht.
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Tue, Jun 13, 1933
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