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Henderson Daily Dispatch
Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina
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Peace officers in west Texas searched for killers who tortured and murdered prominent California woman Mrs. Weston Frome, 46, and her daughter Nancy, 23, leaving their bodies in the desert. Autopsies revealed burns, punctured diaphragm, gunshot, and possible bite on the victims.
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Prominent California Woman and Daughter Tortured and Murdered
Van Horn, Texas. April 4.-(AP)- Peace officers scoured the sun-baked west Texas country today for the killers who tortured a socially prominent California woman and her daughter, clubbed them to death and left their partially stripped bodies side by side on the desert.
Dr. W. W. Waite, who performed an autopsy on the body of Mrs. Weston Frome, 46, and her 23-year-old daughter, Nancy, reported each knuckle of the girl's right hand had been burned by a cigar or cigarette, and that there were four other burns on the back of her hand.
Marks upon her back, he said, indicated someone had jumped up and down upon her. Her diaphragm was punctured and she had been shot in the left temple with a .32-caliber bullet.
Dr. L. T. Walter, of the El Paso city county health department, said a piece of flesh had been torn, perhaps bitten, from Mrs. Frome's right forearm.
Dr. Waite said he did not believe the older woman had been criminally attacked, but that he was withholding decision in the daughter's case pending further examination.
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West Texas
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April 4
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mrs. weston frome and nancy frome tortured, clubbed to death, bodies partially stripped and left side by side on the desert; nancy had burns on right hand knuckles and back, punctured diaphragm, shot in left temple with .32-caliber bullet; mrs. frome had piece of flesh torn from right forearm, possibly bitten; older woman not believed criminally attacked, decision pending for daughter
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Killers tortured socially prominent California woman Mrs. Weston Frome, 46, and her 23-year-old daughter Nancy, clubbed them to death, and left their partially stripped bodies side by side on the west Texas desert; peace officers scoured the area searching for the perpetrators; autopsies by Dr. W. W. Waite and Dr. L. T. Walter revealed specific injuries including burns, jumping marks, puncture, gunshot, and possible bite