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Show 'Complex' Drives Aged Man to Slay Official KENTLWORTH, N. J, Jan. I (AP) Borough Clerk August Au-gust J. Stahl, 49, was ilaln yesterday at borough hall la what Polic Chief Georg Conklin said was "persecution complex" shooting by 72-year-old tax collector, John Z. Butler. Patrolman Andrew Ruecansky, 89, received a superficial bullet' wound la th abdomen later during a struggl among Butler and municipal mu-nicipal official who witnessed th attack on Stahl. Butler was held without ball for th Union (county grand jury on a charge of murder when arraigned before Chief Conklin under a new stat law which permits polic chief to conduct summary hearings. hear-ings. Conklin said that following his arrest th tax collector, who ha held office sine 1923, gav him a note which showed Butler considered consid-ered himself persecuted. The note, Conklin said, contained the names of four men whom Butler Intended to shoot: Stahl, Councilman Fred Pltten, Joha Graf and Vincent Con-verso. Con-verso. County Detectlv Michael Tev-man Tev-man aald Butler, just before he opened fir with two JtV-callber revolvers, handed Stahl a copy of a resolution passed by the council November 38, stripping th collector collec-tor of th power to appoint his own assistants. |