UNSOLVED MURDER
Reward of £2OO Offered For Conviction ACTION BY GOVERNMENT The Government has decided to oiler a'reward of £2OO for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of the little girl, Joan Rose Rattray, at Hastings on July 2. “It will be hoped by everybody,” said the Minister of Justice, Hon. J. G. Cobbe, “that the offer of the reward by the Government will afford a very definite clue which will assist the police In the thoroughness of their Investigation to make the arrest of the perpetrator of the murder of the little girl.” The body of Joan Rose Rattray was found on July 3. face downward in mud, in the vicinity of the old b.’d of the Ngaruoro River, about a mile from the Napier-Hastings road. Circumstances indicated that death had been due to suffocation and that foul play was also involved.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 9
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147UNSOLVED MURDER Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 9
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