MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
SENSATIONAL INCIDENT IN SYDNEY. WAS IT MURDER.
By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received April 22, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The mysterious death of a young woman, named Clarice Barker is reported. She was walking home to the Glebe in company with a man named William GUchrist when two men accosted them. One asked GUchrist what he was doing with his wife. GUchrist replied that he did not know the woman was married. Barker then proceeded with the etranger-s. Gflchrist watched them, and 1 saw them stop outside a vacant allotment. The woman later climbed over a fence and walked off in the darkness. A few minutes afterwards one of the men followed and quickly reappeared. He spoke to his companion and both hurried away. GUchrist went in search of Barker and found her dead body at the bottom of a dry stormwater channel. The only mark of violence on the body was a fractured wrist.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1912, Page 7
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