MURDER OF GIRL AT MELBOURNE.
——o SUSPECT ARRESTED. (uriTED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTIUC TELEGRAPH —COI'VXUGHT.) (Received December sth, 5.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 5. Detectives who in all the States have covered thousands of miles searching for the murderer of Menu Griffiths, aged twelve, at Bentleigli near Melbourne, to-day arrested in Sydney, Robert MeMahon, aged 36, a labourer, on a provisional warrant from Victoria, charging him with the murder of the girl, who was outraged before death. [Foully done to death after being outraged, the body of a twelve-yeur-old girl was found in an empty honsp at Bentleigh, with a gag knotted tightly round the face. Death was apparently due to suffocation. The girl's companions saw her leave the playground with a mar., whom they described ;o the police. A Melbourne message of November 3rd said the police had detained and questioned a man in connexion with the murder of the girl. Tho crime had aroused public feeling as no other had done for many years.]
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20104, 6 December 1930, Page 17
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