THE WINDSOR MURDER
DEATH SENTENCE TO BE CARRIED OUT Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, May 10. The Cabinet to-day decided to carry out the death sentence on Alfred Snicer for the murder of Marcia Hayes. The date of the execution will be fixed by the Executive Council to-morrow. [A police dog (Tess) played a major part in solving the murder of a child, Marcia Hayes, aged six, of Windsor district. A large party of searchers was unable to locate the child, when Tess, after being allowed to sniff the child’s clothing at her home, set out on a trail across ipaddocks and finally located the body in a bag in a creek near Hawkesbury River. The child had been outraged and strangled. The police arrested Alfred Spicer, who is 65 years of age.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22954, 11 May 1938, Page 9
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132THE WINDSOR MURDER Evening Star, Issue 22954, 11 May 1938, Page 9
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