BOY SUSPECTED.

Grey River Argus, 12 January 1927, Page 5

BOY SUSPECTED.

GIRL’S BODY IN SHALLOW GRAVE. N.S.W. STATION TRAGEDY. \ SYDNEY, Jan. 11. ’ The inquest has resumed on the six-; year old girl. Joan Smith, daughter o, Mr Moss Smith, ot I’oolamacca Station, near Broken Hill, who disappeared on August 24. After the search lor the child had been extended tar and un . clairvoyants and spiritualists " eie suited, and predicted that the child «..• still alive. The parents M'ered £ll for the child’s recoveiy. lhe bodi v . - found by an employee, "ho sa v •• child’s foot protruding from a shallo ' grave and unearthed the body Hughes bad left Moss Smith’s euiplqvshort., after the disappearance ot the < tuld. He was arrested and remanded on .. charge of murdering her. ... ' At the inquest Mr Moss-Smith gave evidence that he had had frequently to find fault with 11l^ s ’?y h “ T ' V^ S n ‘ l i’. present in custody, and had be< n Hna Jv compelled to discharge him. He did )iot tell the police why he dischai„<d Hughes, but told them he suspended the lad on account of the “*“ rd e r ‘ Dorothy Schmidt, employed at a >

other station where Hughes was worliing gave i-viden.-e that she to d Hughes ’oAhe finding of the girl’s body, and Hughes r. idled that she had been bi ied too leg to see any marks ot nojeuce W >tness had nut referred to any marks, th- suggestion coming first tiom Hughes. BOY SENT FOR TRIAL. (Reed. Jan AI at 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan- HThe inquest on Joan Smith i>suited : n the Coi oner committing .aims Hughes for trial on a charge of eon ioliTly and maliciously g 11 - Owing to the decomposed oidti i, of the remains, and to neck bone being miisiug, medical IH ® ll '"a' j',,. able to state the cause ol d ® a * valid saving that no bones .veic ) . and there were no signa ot violem i, - • that it was posable that her neik dislocated by a fall from a hoi.i.