The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1928 Page: 3 of 8
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TORTURE SUSPECT
LIVED LIKE GiRL
Alleged Coast Fiend Played
With Dolls.
Los Anj^es.—Little to compare witli
tlie monstrous details of the murder
case against Stewurt Gordon North-
cott, twenty-one, and his mother, Mrs
Louise Northcott, sixty, ever has been
written In the crime records of south-
ern California^
Northcott, a boy who dressed In
girl's clothing, played with dolls, and
was treated as a daughter by his pam-
pering mother until lie reached six-
teen, changed with little delay Into a
person of wild temper and outlandish
habits, according to his father.
The father, Cyrus George Northcott,
who "knew there was something
wrong, but thought things would get
better," never passed such years of
torment as the lust three years after
lie had moved his family from western
Canada to southern California in an
effort to make things more favorable
to the control of Ills son.
The Northcott family formerly lived
for a time in Kamloops, U. C., near
which town the alleged killer of little
boys was arrested by Canadian pro-
vincial police.
Got Into Trouble Early.
The Nortlicotts, who had amassed
euough money from their Canadian
farm to establish themselves In a new
California by another Canadian family,
the Scotts. In the summer of 1023
Stewart Gordon Northeott's predilec-
tions first brought himself and liU
family into trouble. Northcott was
arrested on u complaint sworn to by
the parents of I'lillip Scott, ten. Stew-
art Northcott escaped serious difficult
this time because the law concluded
there was not enough behind the
charges to pr ;cute.
Evidently Gordon Northcott and his
mother became frightened. They per-
suaded the gray-haired father to pay
out cash and buy a chicken farm for
the sou.
"Instead of getting better," the fa-
ther said, "things got worse."
Gordon Northcott and his mother
persuaded the family of Gordon's sis-
ter. Mrs. Winnie Clark of Saskatoon.
Sask., to send on Gordon's nephew
Sauford Clark, thirteen, to be company
for the young man and to help around
the place.
Young Clark, now fifteen, hollow-
eyed, furtive, and fearful for his life
as a result of two years with Gordon
Northcott, passed through treatment
at the Wineville chicken farm. Ac-
cording to the lad's story—which it
took Los Angeles police two weeks to
draw from trembling lips—all kinds of
abuse was heaped on him.
Father Feared Death.
"I couldn't do anything with any
of them," the father said, "and I
feared for my own life. My wife and
my boy both made threats to kill me.
Finally, last December, I left the farm
and came Into Los Angeles, and have
stayed in the city ever since."
When the father left, Sanford Clark
became more than ever the prey of
Gordon Northcott, he said. His first
surcease came when a lad, about nine,
and known t > him as Walter Collins,
appeared at the chicken farm. The
Collins boy, who was said to have
been kidnaped on a street in Los An
geies March 15, was tied up at times
Other times he feared to run away.
Sanford Clark says he had to stand
by, horrified when the Collins boy was
killed.
After Collins was out ot the way
two others came to the death farm.
Both by name and by their photo
graphs in the album of missing boys
in Los Angeles Central police head
quarters, Clark Identified them as
Nelson and Louis Winslow, twelve and
ten. who vanished from their parents
home in Pomona about May 19.
After some weeks of the same
abuses as their predecessors, the Wins-
low boys also were killed, Sanford
Clark said. He witnessed the crimes,
he added.
Northeott's mother herself struck
one of the ax blows that made way
with the younger Winslow boy, Clark
said. His uncle compelled him to hit
the other.
Civss P -'zos
far Lar'T" Fnmli
li,]<!:'! - [ \ < 1!'11::i tineiM fur large
luinilie I created iii purstmm-e
wit the government's scheme of in
cieaslne the popnla! <m
,1 medals. eerf;!i< .- les mi! ir.omn
v111 lie trlven ti t!v mothers of the
largest Hungarian families
A prlstr was awarded lo a peasant
woman, the mother of twenty-seven
children. Lectures on birth control are
Btvlctly prohibited and government
emissaries will tour the rural districts
lecturliw on the benefits of increased
ha. ™"
Historic Pine Tree
Protected in Deed
I'ittsflold. Mass. — Standing alone
near the homestead which at one
time was the summer home •>'
Oilver Wendell Holmes. Is a histoid'
pine tree whose beauty and asso
elation have hrnugl't it within the
circle of legal protection. So greatly
is (his tree cherished that in the deed
which transfers the estate on which
ft stands occurs the following nara
graph:
•*rhat the tree known as the Holmes
pine, standing by itself In the meadows
to the south of the homestead shouM
he allowed to stand as long ns the
course of nature permits and that It
shall nevet I" cut down or movi d
while It remains In a live ot ileal'h>
condition."
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Ward, H. O. The Rusk Cherokeean (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1928, newspaper, November 16, 1928; Rusk, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291379/m1/3/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Singletary Memorial Library.