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...burglar entered the Wheatley Hills, L. I., home of Executive Committee Chairman Elisha Walker of Transamerica Corp., and made off with jewels worth...
...growing dark in Ypsilanti, Mich., one evening last week when Thomas Wheatley, 17, drove up to the house of his friend Harry Lore, 16, jammed on the brakes and blew a long blast on the horn. Out of the house scrambled Lore and two Cleveland girls who were visiting at his home: his cousin, Vivian Gold, 15, and her friend, Anna May Harrison, 16. All piled into the car; Wheatley snapped on the lights, gave the horn another toot, and away they drove through the quiet streets of Ypsilanti to a cinema...
Just before the next dawn a farmer, looking out of his window some ten miles from Ypsilanti, beheld a bright light against the hooded sky. Hurrying across fields to a lonely road he found a car in flames. In the car were the incinerated bodies of Thomas Wheatley, Harry Lore, Vivian Gold, Anna May Harrison. On the running board, fenders, bumpers of the car were splashes of blood. A bloody wrench lay in the road. Officers who removed the bodies after the fire had died found two bullet holes in Lore, discovered the skulls of the other three had been...
With Frank Oliver, a 19-year-old friend of Smith's, they had held up the car, robbed its occupants. When young Wheatley recognized Smith they had killed all four, driven into Ypsilanti with the bodies to get gasoline. Then they had taken the bodies out on the lonely road, soaked them with the gasoline, set fire to them. Oliver said Blackstone had raped Miss Harrison before the murders...
...Great Britain the movement is gaining much headway, despite the boycotting influence of the powerful financial interests. It gains impetus through the timely advocacy in the British House of Commons by the Rt. Hon. John Wheatley of proposals for arriving "Through Consumption to Prosperity...