The rising tide of U. S. murder has washed up during the past month corpses of fewer gangsters but more girls.
In sunny San Diego, police were confronted with a child of ten, strangled; a 17-year-old store clerk and photographer's model hanged from a tree in the Black Mountain woods; last fortnight, a Mrs. W. B. ("Dolly") Bibbens slashed and garroted to death in her city apartment; and last week a telephone operator was stabbed eleven times, fatally, near the Boy Scouts' headquarters. Since none had been criminally attacked, police searched for a female...
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