MISSING GIRL'S DEATH
YOUTH TELLS STRANGE TALE. KILLED BYHOIISE—HE HID THE BODY (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Sydney, Jan. 4. In a statement made to th© police by James Hughes, the youth who was arrested after the discovery of the body of the child Smith at Poolamaeca -staioii, near Broken Hill,- he said he put Joan Smith on/ a horse, which became frightened when he pulled out his handkerchief, and' threw the girl. As she showed no- signs of life affitei a- quarter of an hour, and, fearing Jie would he blamed for putting her on the horse, lie buried her body in the rabbit-hole, which, lie deepened. He was sure she was dead when he buried her ... y . •
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Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 991, 5 January 1927, Page 5
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