REMARKABLE MURDER
BOY AND GIRL ACCUSED.
(Australian Press Association.)
ADELAIDE, Jan. 2
Arising out of the murder of the farmer Rail and his wife at Kumoiua on December 30th, Francis Dali, their fourteen-yenrs-old daughter, has been arrested on a charge of murder. Leslie Ski 1 beck, aged 17 years, a farmhand, has already been committed for trial on a similar charge. The police at the inquest submitted a statement allegedly made by the daughter, Frances, that she was sick of living at Kumorna. She and Skilbeck planned the shootings, and afterwards an elopement, but when she saw her father and mother dead, she became frightened, and decided to tell the police. Skilbeck is now hunger-strik-ing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1931, Page 5
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