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Show yiGTII.OF AWFUL5 : CRIB : Mutilated Body of Little Girl Found in Park ... in Los Angeles ' Los Angeles, May 20 Evidence of a fiendish outrage and murder was disclosed dis-closed when the mutilated body ol little Annie Poltera, nine years old, who attended school in Hollywood, was found today in a secluded spot 40 feet from the roadway la Griffln Park, near this city. The little gtrl'g throat hal been cut from ear to ear, her clothing torn, in shreds from her body -and she had been., outraged. 'The. llt-tlo llt-tlo girl had been misflng from the home of her father, John A. Poltera, a chicken -rancher," since "last Monday. ' , The girl left Los Felt school last Monday afternoon, to go to her home. The route lays along the edge of tho park for sonic distance. When the child failed to reach home that evening.' even-ing.' the family became greatly alarmed,' alarm-ed,' and Immediate search wag instituted insti-tuted but the Los Angeles authorities were not notified of the disappearance. Tho body was discovered today by Jasper She (Tor, an employe ' of tho park. He had gonn to a small brick building in the park used In connection connec-tion with a water system In the rear of this building ho found the mutilated mutilat-ed body of the pv concealed in tho high growth of mustard. The child evidently ev-idently had been dead two days or more. ' It was apparent that the body had been dragged. or carried to the spot where It was found, as no blood stained the ground. |