SECOND CHARGE.
MURDER ALLEGATIONS. SYDNEY, January 22. The police have laid a charge of murder against Eric Ronald Craig, aged 26, salesman, in connection with the death of Bessie O'Connor, whose body was found in National Park on December 15. Craig, who already is in custody in connection with the death of Miss May Miller, has been remanded until January 30. ' With her head terribly injured, Bessie (Isabel) O'Connor, aged 16,. of lledfcrn, was fqund lying in scrub in National Park, Sydney, on December 15. She was rushed to St. George's Hospital in an ambulance, and admitted suffering fnom a multiple fracture of the* skull. She died next day. The girl's assailant had showered numerous blows upon her head, and there were sis distinct wounds. A tyre lever was possibly the weapon used. The man had then dragged her into the scrub and thrown her behind a bush, near an antbed. Her clothing had been removed to hamper identification. Miss May Sutherland, aged 30, was the victim of- a similar crime in the previous week, her body being found in Queen's Park %
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18, 23 January 1933, Page 7
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182SECOND CHARGE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18, 23 January 1933, Page 7
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