THE ECHUCA MURDER.
———• ACCUSED'S STORY DISPROVED. : * fiX CABLE—PRESS ABSOCXA.TION—COPYRKJfP (Received Oct. 8, 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 8. When the dumb and mentally deficient boy Freeman( Avho was arrested on a charge of murdering a youth named Anderson, near Echuca) maintained that the crime was committed by a third boy &c police, with a view to testing his credibility, brought into Freeman's presence a boy attending the same school as Anderson. Freeman, by signs, indicated that this "boy had murdered Anderson. The boy was"not perturbed but laughed and said he was driving shheep on the day of the murder. The police fullj verified this statement and the boy was . not detained.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 October 1913, Page 8
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110THE ECHUCA MURDER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 8 October 1913, Page 8
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