MELBOURNE MURDER CASE.
DR. PEACOCK FOCXD CCTLTY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, October 2j. Dr. Peacock was found guilty of tlio murder of Miss Davics and sentenced to death. Prisoner denied that lie told Poke that the girl died and he secretly disposed of the body and burned the clothes. ][,. | <m . w . notiiinj, (lf t|)(1 whereabouts of Davics after she left the hospital 011 August 2.1. He recognised that, it would have been better to have thought less 0 f her secret and "■ore about himself. ~: u] f vanklv lo | (1 the detectives what he knew. The Chief Justice strongly summed "P against (he prisoner, saying that it was a particularly dangerous and heinous oUcnce which caused the death "f the girl. II was a dreadful menace to the community: it slnu , k at all that was best from the Stale's p (;int of *>iw in the system of marriage. The practices of sur-h men as Peacock inyoung girls to take the risks and Perils of an impure life.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 107, 26 October 1911, Page 5
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168MELBOURNE MURDER CASE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 107, 26 October 1911, Page 5
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