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"The babes in the woods" murder suicide....
"The babes in the woods" murder suicide....
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November 25, 1934
THE CHENANGO TELEGRAPH, Norwich, New York, November 30, 1934
* 3 Babes in the woods murders
* Carlisle PA Pennsylvania
* Photos
This 6 page newspaper has two photos with headings: "Bodies Of Three Girls Found In Mountain Woods" and "Clues in 'Babes in Wood' Deaths". Also one column headlines that include: "GIRLS' DEATH IS CAUSED BY SUFFOCATION" and more. This tells of the "Babes in the Wood" murders near Pine Grove Furnace, Pennsylvania.
Other news and advertisements of the day. Minor margin wear, otherwise good condition.
wikipedia notes: On November 24, 1934, three young girls were found dead, wrapped in a blanket, in the woods of South Mountain between Pine Grove Furnace, Pennsylvania, and Huntsdale, Pennsylvania, in the US. The three girls were twelve-year old Norma Sedgwick, and her two half-sisters Cordelia and Dewilla Noakes. The girls were killed by Elmo Noakes (Norma's stepfather and Cordelia and Dewilla's father) and his niece and lover, Winifred Pierce. Noakes later killed Pierce and himself in a murder-suicide. It is believed that Elmo Noakes suffocated his children because he did not want to see them starve.
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