CHILD STRANGLED
BODY FOUND IN SACK SCHOOLBOY ARRESTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 27. (Received October 28, at 1.10 p.m.) A schoolboy, aged 13, was charged at Holloway with the murder of Beryl O’Born, aged four, whose bound and gagged corpse was found in a sack in a shed behind her mother’s house. The boy went to school as usual, and 'was arrested at lunch time. Beryl’s distracted mother and the neighbours spent the night in searching for the daughter, and the woman discovered the body when she visited -the shed for scullery purposes. _ ' Death was due to strangulation.
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Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 9
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99CHILD STRANGLED Evening Star, Issue 23100, 28 October 1938, Page 9
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