CHARGE WITHDRAWN
IHVERLOCH MURDER CASE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, May 18. (Received May 18, at 10.30 a.m.) The charge against Gordon Knights of having murdered Ethel , Belshaw was withdrawn by the police. [Ethel Belshaw, aged 12, who *attended a beach carnival on New Year’s Day at Inverloch, South Gippslaad, 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. Tho bpdy 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 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 15
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129CHARGE WITHDRAWN Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 15
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