Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-01 | Page 1 | Maniac Binds Fireman and Tortures Him for 5 Hours

MANIAC BINDS FIREMAN AND TORTURES TORTURE EUM FOR 5 I HOURS Tears Strip Strips of of Skin I From His Body Burns Victim FL FINALLY ALLY BESOTTED D f I Crazy Man Sends SCUdS r Photographer to Pie Pie- Pic Picture ture turc Handiwork ST PAUL July 31 31 By By The AssocIated Press Jealousy Press Jealousy over alleged attentions paid his wife led alter Waller H 11 Fletcher to beat and torture E Edward Horrigan 1 a city I fIreman yesterday ester police pollee declared today Fletcher held HorrIgan his boy boy- boyhood boy boyhood hoo hood 1 friend a prisoner five hours while ho lio burned flayed and whipped hipped the fireman Both lion lean and Mrs Fletcher denied any wron wrong doing but flet- flet fletcher Flet Fletcher cher told the tho police that an admitted that he ho had bad kissed Mrs Fletcher Fletcher said the torturing was done as an example to deter other men from playing around with married women ST PAUL July 31 fEy 31 Py The Press Press by tire rare flaying flavins and whipping by a aman aman aman man believed ed to be bc demented Ed- Ed Edwar Edward Ed Edward war ward 1 Horrigan 29 2 3 ty f fireman reman was cas In a serious condition n at n a hospital today was reo res- res rescued ren cued by police who found l hIm hound to a chaIr and handcuffed In ina 0 rooming house I Walter alter II H Fletcher 37 was ar- ar arrested ar rested as the lender leader In hv h tte attack and Roy Boy 18 IS was ns held I for investigation Fletcher said lIe he had been wronged by Horrigan soughT revenge Last night ht lit lu i j sen seat II for Horrigan and the he fireman nt i nt with the youth to Fletchers Fletcher's room There Them igan Horrigan was was overpowered overpowered overpowered I ered and ami bound to a chair As A mith stood hf bY b lIth lRi a It rIfle beat n Then Ihen he cut thIn s ot of tini hl hill bod bady i it ir 1 i snake whip Burning t matches matche were applied to the tho skin akin of th the victim leUm Thin The fireman fainted 1 but was re- re rived re dyed by cold water poured or him by Fletcher After Arler five hours Fletcher decided to call a II photo photo- photographer grapher and base haie a taken I The photographer photo notified police