PERTH SENSATION.
ARTICLES OF CLOTHING FOUND. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received November 8, 10.37 a.m.) PERTH, This Day* Blood-stained clothes, belonging to the missing girl Harris, and a piece of iron, were found buried in the yard of the house where she lived with Smart up to the time of the latter's bigamous marriage. [The police (state Australian papers which came to hand to-day) are investigating _ a report of a carter employed conveying rubbish to the civic destructor at North Perth with respect to a mysterious cart track which he observed in the vicinity during March, after the disappearance of Ethel Harris. The black trackers are displaying wonderful acuteness in following the six months old tracks through the Wanderoo-road scrub in search of the missing woman. The mysterious cart tracks are ' being patiently pursued. Though the track is 18in wider than an ordinary vehicle, the crank axle cart of Hoskins's foundry, which Smart was accustomed to drive, corresponds with that measurement. The hoof marks are alleged to correspond. The tracks have been temporarily lost, but the scrub on each side is being carefully examined for a considerable distance,] _
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 112, 8 November 1910, Page 7
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189PERTH SENSATION. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 112, 8 November 1910, Page 7
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