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Liquor-Crazed Father Kills Three Daughters with Axe, Oct. 22, 1926

Crazed Father Kills Three Daughters

Brockton, Mass., Oct. 23 (AP)—A liquor-crazed father killed three daughters with an axe as they slept in their home here this morning. He was James Stoddard, 36 years old, a laborer, and the girls were Mildren, 7 years old; Florence, 13, and Edna, 11. Marion, 14 years old, the fourth daughter, escaped.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Oct. 22, 1926

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1926-10-22/ed-1/seq-1/

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