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Show HyRTBYFIEND WITH IRON BAR Strikes Down Victims as They Pass to Enter House CANTON, Ohio. Aug 30. Two' Women and B man were murdered and another woman wounded here early today to-day by an unidentified man who lay In wait for his victims and struck them down With an iron bar as they entered the house. The murderer escaped-1 The- dead ,ijr prefls Burns 2 7. Frank Burns, her husband, 25. Mrs Mary Nola, 2j. Luther Armstrng, suffered a' scalp wound. Armstrong fled from the house and no til ld the police. When Armstrong and Mrs Nola intend in-tend the Burns home, whore Mrs. Nola resided, 0 man hiding In a room iu:it i.ti Ho hallway Idled ilrs. .ol.t with a blow and then struck Armstrong Arm-strong with the Iron bar, according to the story' told to the police by Armstrong. Arm-strong. Authorities are holdlnr Vrrnstiung on suspicion pending further invcst.-ga invcst.-ga t ion The. bodies of Mrs Burns and her husband were found in adjoining rooms. The heads of nil the victims Were i rushed. The Iron bar used by th. slayer was found just inside the door. Police say Mrs Nola and her husband hus-band are separated and thai sh has been living In Benton Harboi Mich. A piie "f rags and was!" paper In a room In the house were burning, th'-lia.c th'-lia.c evidently having been started by t) slayer, with the Intent to hide evidence evi-dence of his crime, the police assert. |