BEATEN TO DEATH.
CRUEL TxIEATMENT OP A CHILD.
Received July 4, 12,40 a.m. MELBOURNE, Julj 3,
Alice Carton, aged eleven, was beaten to death in a shocking manner with a broom handle hy the housekeeper, a cousin of her father.
The woman subsequently attempted to commit suicide. When she recovered consciousness, she stated that she beat the girl for telling untruths. She bejcame distracted when she found the child was dead, and tried to commit suicide.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 4 July 1910, Page 5
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76BEATEN TO DEATH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10031, 4 July 1910, Page 5
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