SAVAGE CRIME
MURDERS IN MELBOURNE SUBURB
ELDERLY WOMAN AND GIRL STRANGLED POLICE HUNT FOR ASSAILANT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A mysterious tragedy occurred at Glenroy, a suburb of Melbourne, on Sunday when Miss Annie Wiseman, aged 65, and her niece, Phyllis Wiseman, aged 17, were found dead at the former’s home.
Post mortem and police investigations establish the fact that both victims were strangled. The police believe that (the aijnt heard a struggle in her niece’s room, and was preparing to investigate when the assailant attacked her.
The post mortem showed that both victims were strangled with bare hands. A silk undergarment was tightly knotted round the girl’s throat. At first it was thought that the aunt’s head had been battered, but later it was revealed that a pool of blood had come from her tongue, into which her teeth had bitten deeply. A large force of detectives is engaged in a search for the assailant.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1938, Page 5
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163SAVAGE CRIME Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1938, Page 5
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