MURDERER SENTENCED.
| A QUEENSLAND HORROR. i[lsv 'Klgctbio Telkghaph—Coi'Ymonx] i lmtkd I'kksh Association.] I (Received 11.45 a.m.) j Brisbane, August 30. Ernest Austin was found guilty and [has been sentenced to death,.
A Brisbane cable dated June Bth | 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 thick scrub. ! A farm laborer named Ernest Austin j has been arrested in connection with*
( the outrage. The body of the girl i was found hidden in scrub at Sandford. The child had been outraged, and her throat cut from ear to ear. ; A later cable stated that Austin
ecounted 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.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 5
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159MURDERER SENTENCED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 5
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