AWFUL MURDER
SCHOOLBOY’S ALLEGED CRIME. GIRL AGED FOUR STRANGLED. BODY FOUND IN A SACK. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 27. A schoolboy aged 13 Avas charged at Holloway Avith the murder of Beryl Oborn, aged four, Avhose bound and gagged corpse Avas found in a. sack in a shed behind hen* mother’s house. The boy AA’ent to school as usual and Avas arrested at lunch-time.
Oborn’s distracted mother and neighbours spent the night searching for her daughter. The woman discoA'cred the body Avhen she visited the shed for scullery purposes. Death A\-as due to strangulation.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 15, 28 October 1938, Page 5
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