PARENTS SHOT.
Daughter Arrested on Charge Of Murder.
SUGGESTION OP ELOPEMENT.
ADELAIDE, January 2. As a sequel to the deaths of a farmer, Walter Dall, and his wife, at Kumorna, on Tuesday, Frances Dall, their daughter, aged 14, has been arrested on a charge of murder. Leslie Skilbeck, aged 17 years, a farm worker, has already been committed for trial on a similar charge. ' The police) at the inquest concerning .the deaths, submitted a statement alleged to have been made by the daughter Frances, that she' was sick of living at Kumorna. She and Skilbeck planned to shoot her parents *and- afterward to elope, but when she saw her father and mother dead she! became frightened, and decided to tell the police. • Skilbeck is now hunger striking in prison.
A meesage from Adelaide on December 30 said: 'Walter Dall and his wife, both middle-aged, were shot dead at Kumorna, in the south-western portion of South Australia. A youth of 18, whom Dall formerly employed, was arrested and charged with murder.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 6
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