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Arrested as Murderer of Hotel Keeper

Item

Title
Arrested as Murderer of Hotel Keeper
Source
Evening World
Date
2-Jan-20
page
4
Identifier
Image 4 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), January 2, 1920, (Final Edition) | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
Crime
Murder
Subject
Weapon, murder
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged murderer
Gender of alleged victim
Male alleged victim
Law enforcement involved
Former police lieutenant
Stage of the Legal System
Extralegal
Length of story
50 words
Description
Ross E. Clark, twenty-one, arrested in Louisville, Ky., by former Police Lieutenant William Jones has confessed to the murder Dec. 4 of Edward Lucis, a hotel keeper of West Chazy, ten miles north of Plattsburgh, the detective says. It is alleged Clark hit Lucia with a hammer and took $145.