The hearse carrying the coffin of Leiby Kletzy, an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy who
was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions, makes
its way through the throng after his funeral service
Little boy
lost slain
was one their own has
come as a nasty shock.
Police believe Aron
took Leiby home to his
Brooklyn attic and killed him in a panic after
thousands of people formed a Shomrin, or community patrol.
‘‘Inside (Aron’s) refrigerator was a cutting
board with three carving knives with blood on
them. Some of the remains were in the
freezer, and others in a
dumpster 2½ miles
away,’ police commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Leiby’s funeral was
held yesterday – Thursday evening New York
time – in accordance
with Jewish custom that
burial take place as soon
as possible after death.
Any candidate but Obama
WASHINGTON: For the
first time, a generic
Republican Party candidate is favoured by
a statistically significant margin over President Barack Obama, a
Gallup poll released yesterday reveals.
The poll shows 47 per
cent of voters would
choose the ‘‘Republican
Party’s candidate for
president’’, while 39 per
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cent said they would
vote for Obama.
Gallup called the result the ‘‘first statistically significant’’ lead
for Republicans among
registered voters; last
month, the generic Republican was ahead of
the President 44 per cent
to 39 per cent, within the
poll’s margin of error.
Among independent
voters, the latest poll
showed 44 per cent supported the Republican
candidate while 34 per
cent went for Obama,
with one in five having
no opinion.
The poll surveyed 897
voters nationwide, and
had a margin of error of
four percentage points.
Gallup cautioned polling this far in advance
did not have much
predictive ability.
ELECTRICAL SAFETY RECALL
PUB: NT NEWS
NEW York has been rattled by the inexplicable
murder of an eight-yearold boy who was
butchered after becoming lost on a short walk
home.
Leiby Kletzy had pleaded with his parents to
be allowed to walk home
from a summer-holiday
day care facility in the
Brooklyn suburb of
Borough Park.
His parents allowed
him to walk part way.
He rehearsed the walk
with his father and had
arranged to meet them
at an intersection on
Monday afternoon.
Leiby needed to walk
only seven blocks, but
became lost.
Police say
Levi Aron,
35, has confessed
to
killing
Levi Aron
Leiby and
has been charged with
murder. Leiby had stopped outside a dental
clinic and asked Aron
for directions. The two
were caught on surveillance camera getting
into Aron’s vehicle.
Leiby’s parents are
Hasidic Jews who live in
an insular residential
area regarded as one of
the safest parts of New
York precisely because
the almost exclusively
Jewish community has
always looked out for
each other.
The fact that Aron
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These products were sold between August 2010 and July 2011
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Defect:
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Hazard:
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Contact
Details:
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By PAUL TOOHEY
in New York
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DATE: 16-JUL-2011 PAGE: 19 COLOR:
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