Dead Girls

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 "fiend."

New York City, still mildly horrified by the murder of Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9, et seq.), received out of the East River the decomposed body of Rose Yasso, missing since February, and found by a roadside the body of a redheaded "taxi- dancer" evidently shot after a drunken brawl in an automobile. Police found all the brawlers but the murderer, who had departed hastily.

In Hamden, Conn, a farmer's daughter was found dead after an attack in a wooded ravine near the" local firehouse fortnight ago.

In Tiverton, R. I. early wanderers came upon the strangled body of a student nurse. This was the only mystery in the list for which a solution was offered and an indictment brought: one Elliott R. Hathaway surrendered.

At Salt Lake City one Charles Peter was arrested last week, charged with slugging a wealthy woman unconscious, running over and killing her with her own car.

At Leming, Tex. 11--year-old Merle Springer had most of her clothes torn off and was stabbed 33 times with a penknife, so that she died in a ditch only 300 yd. from her home. A mammoth posse was organized last week to scour the countryside for her assailant.

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