Portrait of Patricia Before Tragedy

(Original Caption) New York City: Bludgeoned To Death. Mrs. Patricia Burton Lonergan, 22, heiress and wife of a Royal Canadian Air Force cadet, met violent death, Sunday in the bedroom of her triplex Beekman Hill apartment, when an unknown assailant crushed her skull with the base of a heavy bronze lamp. The beautiful young matron who is separated form her husband, led a life crammed full of social events and dinner engagements, according to her completer diary, which may provide a telling murder clue.
(Original Caption) New York City: Bludgeoned To Death. Mrs. Patricia Burton Lonergan, 22, heiress and wife of a Royal Canadian Air Force cadet, met violent death, Sunday in the bedroom of her triplex Beekman Hill apartment, when an unknown assailant crushed her skull with the base of a heavy bronze lamp. The beautiful young matron who is separated form her husband, led a life crammed full of social events and dinner engagements, according to her completer diary, which may provide a telling murder clue.
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October 25, 1943
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