BOY MURDERED
A GLASGOW SENSATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 21. The Glasgow police made the sensational discovery of the. body of a murdered boy, aged twelve, which wag
being wheeled, in a perambulator through-,a busy street by a young wo man. The body was wrapped in ?. bed mat. It is believed that a previous attempt had been made to burn the body, the hair on the scalp being singed. The woman, who was accompanied by her small daughter, was arrested. The police believe the boy was strangled at Coatbridge, twelve miles from Glasgow, and that the body was being taken in the pram in order to be disposed of in. Glasgow. The motive is a mystery. The early arrest of .a man is expected.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1923, Page 5
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