GIRL’S MURDER
... A MELBOURNE OUTRAGE. (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, .March 26. The Coroner inquiring into the death of Adeline WiLon, me it>-\ ear-elu gu) whose ho.ly was (o.nitl in a p.«rk at urmoiitl oil January IU, lumul that she was murdered by some person or j*erunknown, llie hotly was discovered in a paddock not far troin her home. A stocking was stuffed into her mouth, and anotiu r was tied round her tuck. Her legs were ulso tied. It, is believed mat slm was first outraged and then suffocated. There is evidence Hint she was dragged for some distance. 3 This crime ret ails two similar murders ivuich recently horrified Victorian households. The police searched for a youth who was seen talking to Adeline Wilson near -the front gate of her home the night before her death. She bad been shockingly maltreated. This outrage was the third one within two months with similar features in each case. The girl Mena Griffiths, aged 11, was outraged and murdered, and was discovered in an empty house at Ormond. A lortnigbt later Mary Dean, aged 25, n school teacher, was found murdered in a latte at Etwoocl.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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194GIRL’S MURDER Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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