SENTENCED TO DEATH.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 March 1928, Page 5

SENTENCED TO DEATH.

.(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Bay, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Cyril Matthew found guilfity of the /murder of Frederick Wm. Thorley, at Tamworth, has been sentenced to death. A BRUTAL CRIME. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. The shocking death of a twelve-year-old' school girl, Ivy Lewis, is reported from Darkan, 164 miles south of Perth. ’The girl, who was missing all night, was found naked in the bush, with her ihead : almost shot away. A farm hand, -Jack Milner, was arrested on a charge ■of murder. He led the police to the .place where the body lay. GHASTLY MURDER. FIENDISH FRENCH BANDITS. ,(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) PARIS, February 29. A bound man, burned so as to be ■unrecognisable, was found in a ditch •near Melon (France) with marks of a motor-car nearby to show thai the. Jinan was brought to the spot bound in n car and on arrival sprinkled with pet.vol and burned to death. PARIS, Feb. 29. The man murdered at Melun has-been identified as a young traveller, Gaston Truphene, who. had been missing for two days. He was in possession of jewels and precious stones worth £SOOO. His head was horribly battered, presumably by., motor bandits, who tied the body , up in a petrol-soaked sack, 10, which they set fire. A. clue, was supplied by a . butcher boy, who saw a motor cat: discarding bloodstained tins.