Evening star., 1937-10-16
SLAYER Of COUPLE
DRIVES $50 MILES
WITH THEIR BODIES
Doctor and Wife, Killed by
Youth, 18, in Maine,
Driven to Jersey.
WOMAN, Sd, WAS DUPED
INTO HUNTING HUSBAND
High School Student Found
Asleep at Wheel of Physicians
Car Near Newark.
By the Associated Press.

bS tne Associated Press.
NORTH ARLINGTON, N. j., Octo-
ber 16.-The bodies of an elderly ply
sician and his wife, beaten to death
with a hammer in Maine by high
school youth, Bergen County Prosecutor
John ]. Breslin said, and then driven
leisurely through the New England
States to New Jersey we're found today
in parked automobile.
The youth. Paul Dwyer. Is, of South
Paris, Me, who had stopped the ma
chine with its gruesome cargo to get
some sleep after his ride of approxi-
mately $50 miles, confessed the double
Staying. Breslin announced. Double
murder" he termed the case.
The victims were identified by police
as DR.. John G. LittlefIeld, 81. and his
wife, Lydia, "a. Of South Paris, Me.
The physicians body was Stuffed into
trunk on the back Of the car. His
frail wife was crammed under the rear
seat
Find Made by Chance.
1t was only by chance that police
stumbled upon the slayins.
The youth, travel weary, was asleep
at the wheel of the car, which he had
parked in a vacant lot. Two patrol
men noticed him. Becoming suspicious.
tney awakened him and took him to
headquarters for routine questioning
about sum of money in his pos
session. Another officer meanwhile
started examining the car and the
slayings were discovered.
Chief Of Police George Shippee
said young Dwyer, a junior in the
South Paris High School. talked read
lily. When the finding of Mrs. Little
fields body was reported to headuuar-
tiers. Shippee said. the youth directed
them to look in the trunk where the
PHYSICIANS body was discovered. The
place the car was parked is not far
from Newark and only several miles
from Jersey City and New York.
Doctor Is Choked.
In Dryers own home, where the
doctor had gone to examine him,
the youth choked DR.. Littlefield and
then beat him to death last Wednes-
day after the latter made 4 crack
about my girl" Shippee quoted Dwyer
as saying
Cramming the physicians body into
trunk. Shippe said the boy placed it
in DR.. Littlefleld's car and drove to his
home. The chief said Dwyer then told
him he induced Mrs. Littlefeld to
gather all the money she had and drive
with him to Boston, where he told the
woman her husband had fed after
killing two people"
Unknown to the gray-haired Mrs.
Littlefield, her husbands body was in
the very car in which they searched"
for him fruitlesSly two days in Boston
and Concord, N. H.
Woman Becomes Suspicious.
Then. as they headed back toward
home yesterday. Mrs. Littlefield be-
came suspicious and threatened to call
policeman at Graham, a community
south Of Portland, Me, the chief said.
"Oh, no you won't" Shippe quoted
Dwyer as saying.
The youth thereupon choked and
beat the woman to death with the
same hammer he used to kill her hus-
band. the police chief said.
Taking her purse, containing $3.50
and some jewelry, he hid the woman's
body in the rear Of the car and drove
southwark ito get away" Shippee
quoted Dwyer as saying.
While passing through New York
City the youth ignored traffic lights
In the hope II would be arrested so
I could get it out OF my mind" the
police chief said.
He entered New Jersey by way Of
the Holland Tunnel last night and.
physically and mentally spent, fell
asleep in the car.
Breslin announced later that Dwyer
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