MURDER OF GIRL STUDENT
SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME. EUROPEAN ARTISAN HELD AS SUSPECT. Received Sunday 11 p.m. CAPETOWN, June 23. A European builder’s artisan, whose name at the request of the authorities the Press docs not publish, was arrested at Cwelo on a charge of the murder of an cightecn-year-old University student named Kanthack, daughter of a well-known engineer in Johannesburg, at Zolo plantation in November, 1927.
After a 36 hours’ search, in which the Air Force joined, the mutilated body of the girl was found by a Boy Scout, covered with leaves and bark. The girl, accompanied by a terrier, left home to go for an afternoon stroll. The murder was presumed to be a native outrage, but a reward of £SOO failed to elicit a single chic. It is known the arrested man was working in the neighbourhood of the scene-of the murder at the time.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1929, Page 3
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