THE MYSTERY MURDER.
TRAGEDY AT BOURNEMOUTH. OPENING OF THE TRIAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 8, 5.5. p.m, London, June 7. At the Police Court the trial of Thomas Henry Allaway, who is charged with the murder of Miss Wilkins at Bournemouth, has begun. The defence intimated their intention of attempting to prove an alibi. Allaway, who is aged about 30 years, was arrested at Reading on a charge of stealing a cheque book valued at two shillings, and was later charged with the murder of Miss Wilkins in December last. The discovery of the dead body of Miss Wilkins on the side of a road near Bournemouth was made on December 24. The head had been battered in, apparently with a heavy motor tool, and there was evidence that a severe struggle had taken place Wilkins had advertised for employment, and received a telegram to go to Bournemouth, where she would be met by a motor-car. It was reported that she had been seen to enter a blue motor-car, but she was never seen alive again.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 5
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177THE MYSTERY MURDER. Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 5
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