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Photograph caption dated October 31, 1956 reads, "Arraigned in knife murder - Irwin N. Axelrod, 31, sat quietly in Lancaster Justice Court today as Judge O. Benton Worley ordered him to appear Friday for preliminary hearing in slaying of Lancaster housewife. He is suspected of murdering Mrs. Sally Carp last Oct. 8."
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