THE MURDER OF A GIRL.
NO CLUE TO PERPETRATORS. Ily 'laleeraph— D retis Association—OopyrlaM Sydney, March G. Thore is no clue to the perpetrator of t'ho tragedy. Tho girl's road liomo was through scrub. Apparently she was decoycd into the bush, where there are evidsnccs of a desperate struggle. Money which was in tho basket which the girl was carrying is missing. Miss Porter was tho daughter of a wellknown family, and was a general favourite in tho district. She was of exceptionally fino physique. ' P.OST-MORTEM EXAMINATION. (Rec. March G, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, March G. A post-mort'em examination of tho "body of Esther Porter disclosed tho fact that she was strangled; before her liead was smashed. The rumours that she was outraged aro disproved by the post-mortem examination. The polico aro still without a cluo as to tho perpetrators of tho crime. Tho dead body of a girl named Esther Porter, aged fourteen years, residing, at Bankstown, was found near the Punfchb'.iwl Railway Station. Tho girl was last seen in the vicinity of tho Punchbowl Station on Monday morning, when sho returned from visiting her mother in hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1692, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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188THE MURDER OF A GIRL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1692, 7 March 1913, Page 5
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