BACKBLOCKS MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 18736, 11 September 1924, Page 6

BACKBLOCKS MURDER

MISS EHWRIGHT'S DEATH EOBBEBT THE MOTIVE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Press Association. MELBOURNE, September 9. (Received September 10, at 1.20 a.m.) Tho fact that Mies Enwright met her death by foul play has been proved beyond a doubt. At tho inquest the medical evidence disclosed that there were “two bullet wounds in her head, and that portions of flattened bullets of small calibre were entangled in her hair. Tho indications ax© that she was shot from a considerable distance. Apparently she had been dead for several weeks.. The deceased inherited a farm of 293 acres from her father, and she had lived a lonely life since the death of her mother twelve years ago. Rumors aro current that she kept a large sum of money in the house, which had been ransacked apparently at the time of tho tragedy. THE POLICE SEARCH, MELBOURNE, September It (Received September 11, at 10 a.m.) Miss Enwright was last seen alive on July 27, when, after a visit to Yachandandah, she was driven by a neighbor to within 100yds of her house. When the neighbors forced an entrance to the house they found that the bed had not been made, and that the clothes usually worn by Miss Enwright when she was away from honfo wore in her bedroom,

The farm was badly neglected, and it is not thought possible that the unfortunate woman could have possessed much means. The police are endeavoring to find the person who was seen speaking to tho woman on July 27.