MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
LITTLE GIRL KILLED.
VERDICT OF WILFUL MURDER.
Received March 19, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, March 18.
The police admitted at the inquest on Vera lioad that no evidence had been submitted to clear up the mystery. Her sister deposed that the deceased had no male friends except school boys. The medical evidence showed that the child had been grossly violated. A verdict of wilful murder by a person unknown was returned. —A. and N.Z. cable.
After leaving her music teacher’s house at Chichester early one evening last week, Vera lioad, aged 12 years, mysteriously disappeared. She was discovered lying dead under a hedge at the West Sussex mental hospital, half mile from her home. There were no signs of a struggle, but there were strangulation marks on her throat.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 970, 20 March 1924, Page 6
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