Word: melba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MELBA GELLING...
...Saturday in suburban Inglewood, a few miles from Los Angeles. Little Jeanette Stephens, 8, Melba Everett, 9, and Madeline Everett, 7, started off with sandwiches for a picnic in the park as countless children in countless cities have done on countless Saturdays. As afternoon wore on and they did not return, their mothers grew uneasy. When suppertime had come and gone, Mrs. Stephens sent her little boy Garth, 7, to the park to look for them. An hour later the parents called the police. Shortly after midnight a community search was on and the disappearance of the three little girls...
...girls to come with him into the Baldwin Hills where they would catch rabbits. They met him Saturday afternoon and walked back into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then he returned and repeated the crime with the others. Then he ravished the three bodies. Finally...
Married-Rosa Melba Ponselle, 39, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Carle A. Jackson, Baltimore insurance man, son of Baltimore's Mayor Howard Wilkinson Jackson; in Manhattan...
Engaged. Rosa Melba Ponselle, 39, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Carle A. Jackson, Baltimore insurance man. son of Mayor Howard W. Jackson; in Baltimore...