A STRANGE MURDER.
AN ARREST MADE.
STATEMENT BY ACCUSED.
(Received Last Night, 11.25 o'clock.) PERTH, November. 13.
A man named W.. Jackman has been arrested for the murder of Griffith Boyer. . JacEtaan at first reported that Boyer was drowned while bathing, but he l*ow states that he shot Boyer accidentally, and being afraid partially burned the body, which he threw into a well.
[On November Ist a number _ of blacks found the body of Boyer in a native well three miles from thd beach. The body was partly burned and was almost unrecognisable. It was thought, when Boyer was missing, that he had been drowned.]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 November 1913, Page 5
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105A STRANGE MURDER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 November 1913, Page 5
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