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Vida Horn

Vida Horn was the first City Librarian in St Kilda and a frequent contributor to ABR in the early years.

Vida Horn reviews 'Leonski: The brownout strangler' by Ivan Chapman

May 1984, no. 60 01 May 1984
Eddie Leonski was a private in the United States Army who was tried and executed for strangling three women in wartime Melbourne. Barely three weeks elapsed between the first murder and Leonski’s arrest. He was executed six months later, in November 1942. There seems no doubt that Leonski committed the crimes; whether he had a fair trial is another matter. ... (read more)