DOUBLE MURDER
MAN AND WOMAN
LATTER’S BODY DISCOVERED
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, Apr I 12
Wilkin:ton's features were almost unrecognisable, owing to fuirl’ui wounds caused by a shotgun apparently fired at close range. The police are of the opinion that lie must have been killed while defending Mis-,; Denzil, who was afterwards killed, as one of her stockings was used to fie- Wilkinson’s hands behind him before his death. Two hundred police are engaged in investigauiiig .tin* crime which is regarded as one of the most, revolting in Australia's history. Miss Deiizil’s body has been found in a shallow grave this evening, about two miles from the spot where Wilkinson’s body was found yesterday. Two soldiers from the Remount Depot were passing on horseback, when one horse shied at a freshly disturbed mound of earth among the scrub. The police were summoned and found the girl's body after a minimum of digging. How she met her -death is as yet undetermined.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1932, Page 5
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161DOUBLE MURDER Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1932, Page 5
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