TWO GIRLS MURDERED
CHARGES AGAINST FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY. (Rec.’July 10, 11.50 p.m.) London, July 9. Harold Jones, aged fifteen years, has been arrested at Abertillery, Monmouthshire, and charged wfrli murdering Florence Little, aged eleven, whose body, outraged and with tho throat cut, was found hidden in an attic m Jones s home after several thousand people, including Jones and his father, had fruitlessly searched all night for the missing girl'in neighbouring fields. Jones was acquitted sixteen days ago at the Monmouthshire Assizes by a Jury (which included five women) on a charge of murdering Freda Brunell, agod nine, who disappeared niter going an errand to a shop in Abertillery where Jones was employed. A witness testified to hearing screams in a shed adjoining the shop. The child had bet# strangled and her body was found on February 6 after several days’ search by neighbours in a lane which had previously been searched. The trial aroused intense local feeling.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19210711.2.48
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 245, 11 July 1921, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
159TWO GIRLS MURDERED Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 245, 11 July 1921, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in