A BRUTAL MURDER.
A YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH
i By Elected Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Brisbane, Juno 19.
A man named Austin, charged with murdering Mitchell, accounted for the blood on his clothes and his cut finger by the statement that he had been killing calves. His employer testified that accused left his employ three days before the murder, and had not killed any calves.
A Brisbane cable, dated June 8. said:—A girl named Mitchell, aged 11, visiting friends two miles distant, started for home early in the afternoon. Not returning by dark, her father and brother searched for her, and discovered her body in a thick scrub. A farm laborer named Ernest Austin has been arrested in connection with the outrage. The body ol the girl was found hidden in the scrub at Sandford. The child had been outraged, and her throat cut from ear to ear.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 20 June 1913, Page 5
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147A BRUTAL MURDER. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 38, 20 June 1913, Page 5
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