DEATH OF JOAN SMITH
HUGHES CHARGED WITH MURDE!
(United Press Association. —Copyright. SYDNEY, 11th" January.
The inquest on Joan; Smith resulted in, the. Coroner committing -James Hughes for trial on :the-charge of feloniously and maliciously murdering her. Owing to the decomposed condition of .the remains, and ono neck bone being- missing, the medical men were, unable to state the , causo of death, beyond saying that no bones were broken, there, were no signs of violence, and that it was possible the neck was dislocated by a fall from a horse.
At Poolamacca Station,- near.Broken Hill, Joan Moss-Smith, tho six-year-old daughter of the owner, disappeared on 24th August. Her body was found on 29th December, buried in a shallow
grave near the homestead,
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 9, 12 January 1927, Page 9
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