MURDER OF PARENTS
SENSATION, IN SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
DAUGHTER. ARRESTED IN ADDITION TO FARMHAND
-VLLEGED PACT TO ELOPE AFTER SLAYINGS.
Hj.-p a. by Elec. Tel. Copyright! (Received Jan. 2. 11 p.m.) ADELAIDE, Jan. 2.
Arising out of the murder of a farmer named Dali and his wife at Ivumorna, Frances Dali, the fourteen yeai old daughter, has been arrested on a charge of murdter. Leslie Skilbeck, aged 17 years, a farmhand, has already been committed for trial on a similar charge. The police, at the mquest ) submitted a statement allegedly made by the daughter Frances that she Was sick of living at Kumorna and that she and Skilheck had planned the shootings and afterward to elope, but, when she saw her fathei and mother dead, she became frightened aiid decided to tell the police. Skilbeck is now hunger-striking in gaol. * "
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 5
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