Native Son Newspaper Articles

Remains of Heiress Found!


The search for the missing 19 yr Dalton heiress ends with a gruesome discovery. As investigators were searching the Daltons' mansion, detectives found the remains of Mary Dalton in the furnace. Authorities arrested Mary's boyfriend and Communist member, 20 yr old Jan Erlone and the family's recently hired black chauffeur, 20 yr old Bigger Thomas. Both have been taken in for questioning and are faced with possible charges of homicide. The medical examiner is unsure of the cause of death, but knows for sure that she was murdered before being decapitated and put in the furnace. The entire city of Chicago was left devastated and citizens formed mobs, threatening to lynch the black chauffeur.