A SCAFFOLD CONFESSION.
JUST PUNISHMENT
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Brisbane, September 22
Austin has been executed for murjdoring Mitchell. Death was instantaneous. In a speoch on ,the scaffold he admitted the justice of the punishment, adding that he did not know what he was doing when the tragedy was enacted.
A Brisbane cablegram, dated June 9, oaid: A girl named Ivy Mitchell, aged 11, visiting friends two miles j
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 at Samford. A farm laborer named Ernest Austin has been arrrested in connection with the outrage. The child had been outraged and her throat cut from ear to ear.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 23 September 1913, Page 2
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127A SCAFFOLD CONFESSION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 23 September 1913, Page 2
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