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A TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL MURDERED. HER HEAD BATTERED IN WITH A STONE. SOLOMAN ISLANDER ARRESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Dec. 2d. Ramsay’s Bush, a socludud locality near Lcichardt, where a terrible child outrage was committed some months ago, for which a man named Campbell was executed, was the scene of another similar tragedy. In this instance, the victim, who is dead, is a ten-year-old girl named Smith. She went with a companion to the bush to gather Christmas greenery, und subsequently littlo .Mits Smith was found with her head fearfully battered, and a lurge blood-stained stone near. She died in the hospital. A blaekman, seen near the bush about the time of tho tragedy, a Soloman Islander, is supposed to be the murderer, and was arrested. Indications point to tho fact that the cause of tho crime was lust and foiled purpose.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 703, 24 December 1902, Page 2
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