WOMEN: Mr. Powers of Quiet Dell

Lonely U. S. women who patronize matrimonial agencies breathed a sigh of relief last week. Four months ago people had been horrified to learn that a Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, matronly divorced nurse of Northboro, Mass., had been found murdered and buried in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia after a postal courtship. Accused of the killing was small, pudgy, pig-eyed Harry F. Powers of Quiet Dell. In his house was found a trunk full of correspondence from women all over the U. S. Buried near his garage was found another of...

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