STATION TRAGEDY.
STATEMENT BY ACCUSED. AFRAID TO TELL OF BURIAL. SYDNEY, Dec. 30. In connection with the finding of the body of Joan Smith, at Pookniacca station, the police officially announce that the boy James Hughes made a statement that the girl was killed in falling from a pony. Hughes was afraid to tell that he had buried the body where it was. found. An inquest will be held on January 10.—Press Association.
On August 24 the six-year-old daughter of Mr Moss-Smith, of Poolaniaeca station, near Broken Hill, disappeared. Since then there had been a constant search by police, bands of residents, and blacktrackers, in Ahe wild country many miles round the station. On Thursday an employee of the station, when 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.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 28, 31 December 1926, Page 9
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