REWARD OFFERED
MURDER OF CHILD AT HASTINGS.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 29,
The Government has decided to offer a reward of £2OO for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of Jean Rose Rattray, at Hastings, on July 2.
“It will lie hoped by everybody,” the l Minister for Justice (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) said, “that the offer of a reward will afford a very definite clue, which will assist the police in the thoroughness of their investigations.”
Joan Dose Rattray, aged six, was found dead in the old bed of the Ngaruroro River, about a mile from the Hastings-Napier road. A search for the child had been carried out from the previous night. The body was found lying face down in mud.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 272, 30 August 1935, Page 7
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