GIRL MURDERED.
CHARGE AGAINST A BOY. ACQUITTED IN SIMILAR CASE. By TelatTaph.—Pres3 Asan-CopyrtftiL Received July 10, 11.50 p.m. London, July 9. Harold Jones, aged fifteen years, has been arrested at Abertillery, Monmoitthi shire, and charged with murdering bion ence Little, aged 11, whose body, cruti raged and with the throat cut, wa( found hidden in an attic in Jones’ homt after several thousand people, including Jones and his father, had fruitktfslj searched all night for the missing gli( in the neighboring fields. Jones was acquitted sixteen days- ag< at Monmouthshire Assizes by a jury, iw eluding five women, on a charge of anur dering Freda Erunnell, aged nine, win disappeared after going on an errand tt a shop in Aberiillery. where Jones wat employed. A witness testified to hear* ing screams in a shed adjoining the shop Brunnell’s strangled body was found oi February 6 aftei several days’ searci by neighbors in a lane previously seatreb ed. The trial aroused intense local feel ing.—Aus.-NuZ. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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