MURDER AT GLENLUCE.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 646, 10 March 1870, Page 4

MURDER AT GLENLUCE.

[FBOM THE M. A. MAIL.] The quiet neighborhood of Glenluce has been horrified by the murder of a little girl, the daughter of a farmer named Hiint, who for some time has resided at Glenluce. It appears that the murdered child attended, a school situated at about two miles distant from her home. On Friday, 18th Feb. , she went to school as usual and did not return. Her parents were naturally anxious at her absence, land a search was instituted. Glenluce and its surrounding localises is full of prospectors' ravines and deep valleys, besides being pretty well timbered. Through this kind of the country, the girl, who was nine year,s .of age, had to walk daily. It was, therefore, at the most, surmised that she had either only lost her way, and would be easily recovered, or that, if any fatality had overtaken her, it was by falling over some rock. The search was continued as far as possible during. Friday night, and .on Saturday the unfortunate child was found in a small drive at the bottom of a broad hole about five feet deep, and quite dead. When discovered she was lying with her face uppermost, and the drive was not long enough to admit the whole of. her body. The face was partially covered with sand and leaves, and inasmuch as some of the sand had passed into the oesophagus, there can be little doubt but that she was alive when the sand was forced into her mouth. On examination, it was evident that she had been beaten about the hoad, though not with sufficient force ' to break any bones. There had evidently been great pressure towards the neck, and behind both eyes heavy blows with a blunt instrument had been delivered. The deceased was a fine grown girl, and she has doubtless been the vifctim to some scoundrel, who, failing to accomplish his first vile intent, deprived her of life, probably to prevent her afterwards identifying him. The child was seen by one or two of her playmates a short itime before .her ; life was taken, and we understand that a Chinaman has been arrested on suspicion of b> i g the perpetrator of the double crime. At an inquest, held on Monday, a. verdict of wilful murder, after an attempt had been made to violate her, was returned against some person or persons unknown.