The Hunterville Sensation.

Hastings Standard, Issue 439, 30 September 1897, Page 4

The Hunterville Sensation.

Very little seems to have been elicited at the inquest of Hilda Northcott to account for her death. It is just possible that there was nothing more to be told than that the girl kept in hiding of her own accord and died of exposure. But, on the other hand, there are suspicions circumstances which can scarcely be reconciled vr;th a theory of the kind. We have it in evidence that, three days after her disappearance, searchers passed over the very spot on which the body was ultimately found, and they are certain that it was not there then. How is this to be accounted for? It is scarcely likely that she had survived the exposure of the interval between her disappearance and the time the searchers passed over the place, and that she had subsequently got so far on her way back before utter exhaustion overcame her. If not who brought the body to the place where it was found, and who again had recently turned it over ? These are the questions which the Justice Department should endeavor to supply an answer to without further loss of time. The case demands further enquiry, and that at once. Another thing that should be very fully enquired into is why a girl, seemingly sane, should now and then hide herself in the bush until benumbed with exposure. Healthyminded girls do not usually do such things. We insist, and shall continue to insist, that this mystery shall be probed to the very bottom.—Advocate.