CRIME EVIDENCES.

Northern Advocate, 4 August 1924, Page 5

CRIME EVIDENCES.

GIRL STRANGLED,

OUTRAGE SUGGESTED.

(Received 10.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The body of a girl named Irene Taekerman, 11 years of age, was found in # a street at Caulfield early yesterday jnorning. She had been apparently .strangled and is believed to have been outraged. The girl left her home in Caulfield on Saturday morning and was not afterwards seen alive. A motor car was heard in the vicinity where the body was found early the same morning. The police have a clue, but 'the details are meagre.—A. and N.Z. DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY. THE GIRL'S MOVEMENTS. (Received 12.45 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. In. connection with the Caulfield tra*gedy, Irene Tuckerman was sent at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning by her i brother to obtain three shillings from f her mother, who is a widow and wo*ks in a grocery shop 400 yards from her home in Crimea Road. The girl obtained the money and immediately left •the premises. It is believed that she wns seen in Balaclava Road, 800 yards from home, a little after 11 o'clock. Apparently she was not seen again •alive. Her disappearance was reported to the police when her mother returned home from work on Saturday night. shortly before 8 o'clock. On Sunday morning a. medical student, B. F. Stewart, and his brother were proceeding to church when they saw a bundle on the roadside. On" investigation it was found to be an old bran bag, tied at the end. Stewart untied the bag, and found a similar bag inside. This was also .untie.!, and

the body of the child was discovered. y-After satisfying himself that there was ' no life in the body, Stewart notified 1 the police. A dairyman saw the bundle lying on the roadside at 5.30 in the morning. In tne dim light he thought it was rubbish, and he pass2:l on. During the past year frequent complaints have been made by school children that thru' wee accosted by men. Many parents have made a practice of meeting their children on the wav from • 'school. The street in which tlie girl's body was found is a short thoroughfare, unmade at one er.d. Bunches of «-hrubbery grow by tI:C wayside. The body yras only 200 yards from the girl's home. This face is thought to be .significant. It is believe:! the. body was placed there in the early hours of the morning, as a young man passed the spot at half-past twelve and saw nothing to excite suspicion. It is believed that whoever committed the dime car/'ried the victim on foot fron: some place nearby.—A. and X.Z. MARKS OF CORD. (Received 1.30. p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The girl Tuckerman was a twin -child, one of a family of seven, the mother of whom is the widow of a returned soldier. Bruises about th'i neck and chest indicate a desperate struggle and that a cord was used to strangle the girl. An attempt, apparently unsuccessful, was made to commit a criminal offence.—A. and N.Z.