CHARGED WITH MURDER
DEATH OF JOAN SMITH HUGHES COMMITTED FOR TRT^L. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, January 11. The inquest cm Joan Smith resulted in the coroner committing James Hughes for trial on a charge of feloniously and maliciously murdering her. Owing to the decomposed condition_ of the remains and one neck bone being missiing, the medical witnesses were unable to state the cause of death, beyond saying that no bones were broken, that there were no signs of violence, and that its was possible that the neck was dislocated by n fall from a horse.
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Evening Star, Issue 19454, 12 January 1927, Page 5
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95CHARGED WITH MURDER Evening Star, Issue 19454, 12 January 1927, Page 5
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