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Show "Juvenile Actress Hear Death in Attack by Slugger; Suspect Killer ' HOLLYWOOD .March 29 (I'.R) Delia Bogard. the pig-tailed tom-oy tom-oy who played pranks with Mickey Rooney in the old "Mickey Maguire" comedies, was struck down early today, apparently by the same slugger who killed a young dancer a month ago. A blow from his club fractured the 17-year-old actress' skull and .she may die. He leaped at her! from ths shadow of a budding as i the girl walked home from a mo- j tion picture show. Slugger Victim Police believed she fell victim to the .slugger who struck down Anya Sosoyeva. a Russian dancer and singer, on the wooded campus of Los Angeles City college last Feb. 25- The dancer ded a few hours later, and her assailant has never been found. , The attacks were markedly simi-, simi-, lar, police said. The club was the same a section of 2 by 4 inch scantling. The assailant in each case leaped from the darkness, hammered the girl over the head, and fled without attempting a criminal attack. Miss Bogard, a pretty brunette, in her earlier years was the rollicking rol-licking tomboy Taylor in the comedies come-dies starring young Rooney in the lead role of Mickey Macguire, the tough kid of the comic strips. Grown to an age for more grownup grown-up roles, she has been working in Jackie Cooper's latest picture of j high school days, "What a Life." Early today she was walking home from a motion picture theater the-ater on Sunset avenue in Hollywood Holly-wood when the clubber leaped on her from the shadow of an apartment apart-ment building on Wilton place. She fell under the blow without gaining a glimpse of her attacker. At the Hollywood receiving hospital hos-pital Miss Bogard was given a fifty-fifty chance to survive the blow. Later, after being removed to the county general hospital, her condition was "fair." Her parents, Mr. and Mrs-Harry Mrs-Harry Bogard, said she was in the habit of attending late shows and walking home. |