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Local Girl Found Slain by Rejected Lover

(Newspaper Account)

Ms. Porphyria Blank, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Blank, of Barton Park, was found strangled this
morning in the cottage owned by John Doe, 25, who was apprehended on the scene of the crime by
officers Bailey and Hodge. Doe was found holding the body in his arms, and appeared to be in stupor, his
only reply to repeated questioning being, “I killed her because I loved her.”

According to the members of the Blank family, Doe had paid attention to Miss Blank for the last several
months, though it was strenuously denied that his regards for Miss Blank was returned. Miss Blank’s
engagement with Mr. Roger Weston was announced last month. Mr. Weston could not be reached for a
statement. Mrs. Blank was prostrated by the news of her daughter’s death.

The slain girl vanished last evening at approximately eleven o’clock from a dinner party given at her
parent’s home in honour of the approaching wedding. The family became alarmed when it was
discovered that she was not in her room, and instituted a search for her about midnight. The police, who
were promptly notified, in the course of their search knocked at Mr. Doe’s cottage, a building some
quarter of a mile from the Blank estate, at five in the morning. Receiving no answer, they forced the
door and discovered Doe sitting with the dead girl in his lap. She had apparently been strangled, Dr. A. P.
Reynolds, Autopsy Surgeon for the county, state that, from the condition of the body, death must have
occurred at about midnight.

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