A PECULIAR CASE.
A LAND BOARD MEMBER CHARGED WITH MURDER. A LADY SELECTOR DIES OF A BROKEN HEART. (/'er Press A-wciatti>)i. — Sydney, This day. A peculiar case came before the Molong Police (fourt. A local land surveyor laid a criminal information against a member of the district land board for murdering Miss Lemon. The latter conditionally purchased a piece of Crown land. The board twice cancelled the application and forfeited the deposit money because it was alleged she was acting as an agent, and last time the Minister of Lands reversed the Board's decision. Miss Lemon died shortly after the second reversal. The grounds or the charge is that the board's decision broke Miss Lemon's heart. The bench refused to take action till a doctor's certificate as to the cause of death was produced.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 399, 14 August 1897, Page 3
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134A PECULIAR CASE. Hastings Standard, Issue 399, 14 August 1897, Page 3
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