MURDER OF A GIRL
THE CORONER'S FINDING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, May 15. '(Received May 16, at 11.45 a.m.) A finding of ‘‘ murder by some person or persons unknown,” was returned by the city coroner at the inquest into the death of Ethel Belshaw, who was strangled at Inverloch. [Ethel Belshaw, aged 12, who attended a beach carnival on New Year’s Day at Inverloch, South Gippsland, suddenly disappeared. Her body was found in the bush on January 2, with her hands tied behind her back, a stocking stuffed in her mouth, and her head terribly battered. Medical evidence disclosed that she had been outraged and then murdered. The body was secreted in the bush a short distance from the spot where she was last seen. The inquiry following the discovery of the girl s body was one of the most extensive ever undertaken by the Victorian police.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22030, 16 May 1935, Page 9
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147MURDER OF A GIRL Evening Star, Issue 22030, 16 May 1935, Page 9
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