Australian Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 October 1913, Page 3

Australian Cables.

[I>ER MESS ASSOCIATION.] [ELECTitIC TELEGRAPH, COPYRIGHT.] (Received This Day, 8.-15 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. A movement lias ueen revived with a view to establishing a Chair of Architecture at the Sydney University. a TASMAiNIAN MURDER. Details of the murder of Margaret Kathleen Redwell, ag'ed 10, whose father is a brotlier of a farmer, on the Cheshunt Instate, near JDeboraine, shows it to be one of the most dastardly crimes in the annals of Tasmania. She left home on Sunday afternoon to join her parents, who were visiting -another settler. The girl was waylaid in a lonely spot on the Spriugdale. road and molested. .Frustrated in his first attack, the murdered then shot her, portion ot' her head being blown oil'. Her body, was found in a depression a little way oil' the track. At the inquest.the father's evidence went to show that the girl was not in the habit of walking with anyone. She was strong and in good health and on the best of terms with the family. Medical evidence showei 1 . that there were bruises on both thighs, and the shot fired at two or three yards distance. Few or no strangers have been seen in the neighbourhood, lately and the police have no clue to the mystery.