GIRL DISAPPEARS
LONG FRUITLESS SEARCHES. DISCOVERY OF HER BODY CHARGE OF MURDER FOLLOWS. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COT YBIGdi Received 10.20 a.in. to-day. SYDNEY, Dee. 30. An August 24, a six-year-old daughter of Air Aloss Smith, of Pool amacca station, near Broken Hill, disappeared. Since then search by police, bands of residents, and black trackers in the wild country for many miles around has been made, and an aeroplane has scouted far and wide. Clairvoyants and spiritualists were consulted, and they predicted that the child was still alive. The parents offered £IOOO reward for her recovery. Yesterday an employee of the station, while- gathering -sticks a short distance from the homestead, saw a child’s foot protruding from a shallow grave and unearthed the body of the missing girl. It bore; no signs of violence. Later James Hughes, who left Mr Moss Smith’s employment shortly after the disappearance of the child, was arrested and remanded on a charge of murdering her.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 December 1926, Page 5
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160GIRL DISAPPEARS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 December 1926, Page 5
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