GRIM DISCOVERY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 November 1925, Page 5

GRIM DISCOVERY.

BROTHER,’SI IGNORANCE JUNEE VICTIM'S FUNERAL. A/DELONG (N.S.W.), Nov. -1. A gloom was oast over Adelong by the funeral of Clare Pro-wse, the victim of the j'unee tragedy. All the shops in the town were closed. Phillip Prowse, ia brother, got word of his sister's death only on Monday morning at Ivanhoe, where he was engaged .school-teaching. The funeral was postponed to enable him to attend, and he managed to get to the cemetery just when the mourners were assembled. He came right across country on a motor cycle—--385 miles.

The tragedy was doubly poignant for him, as he did not know the cause of his sister’s death until he joined the bereaved family returning in a motor car from the funeral.

Following the death of Junee on November 2 of Olaire Prowse, aged seventeen, a telephonist, Jack Smith, aged eighteen, a telegraph operator., was arrested. It. is stated that .Smith had been paying addresses to the girl and was repulsed. It is belieevd that she was attacked with a razor. She rushed into- the house where she was hoarding covered with, blood, and died shortly alter. The police visited a room at the Junee Hotel and arrested Jack Smith, who had two gashes, one being in the temple. He was bleeding profusely and on the point of collapse and was sent to hospital. A razor wa<found in his room.