YOUNG GIRL'S DEATH.
Coroner's Verdict of Murder
Against Father.
STRYCHNINE POISONING.
SYDNEY, September 24.
The inquest was concluded to-day concerning the death of May Schubert, aged 14, a former resident of Gloucester, a village on the north coast. The girl's skeleton was found by detectives in a lonely part of the bush at Bedhead, near Newcastle.
The coroner returned a verdict that death was due to poisoning by strychnine feloniously administered by deceased's father, whose present whereabouts are not known.
At the opening of the inquest on May Schubert last -week it was stated in evidence that she had been taken to Newcastle early in the year to enter a maternity home. Her father, who accompanied the girl, was not seen afterwards, and had since disappeared without leaving a trace.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 7
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