Girl slain in Columbia University building
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Girl slain in Columbia University building

[ca. July 1952]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Copy photo of 20-year-old Eileen Fahey of 161 West 108th Street, clerk in the 29th floor offices of the American Physical Society in the Pupin Physics Laboratory Building of Columbia University, who was shot down and killed today by an unknown assailant. Miss Fahey was typing in an office at the northeast corner of the building when a slender man of about 28 and about 6 feet 1 entered and fired five shots at the girl pointblank. Police said four cleaning women reported seeing the slayer step into the elevator after the shooting, but they were so frightened they flew into a closet and locked themselves[...]

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