CHARGE OF MURDER
SCHOOLGIRL'S DEATH
LABOURER ARRESTED
SYDNEY, sth December. Detectives, who in all States have covered thousands of miles searching for the murderer of Mena Griffiths, aged twelve, at Bentleigh, near Melbourne, to-day arrested in Sydney Robert M'Mahon, aged 36, a labourer, on a provisional warrant from Victoria. M'Mahon was charged with the murder of the girl, who was outraged before death. Foully done to death after being outraged, the body of Mena Griffiths was found in an empty house at Bentleigh on 9th November. A gag was knotted tightly round the' face, and death was apparently due to suffocation. The girl's companions saw her leave the playground with a man, who has been described to the police.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 9
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119CHARGE OF MURDER Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 9
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