N.S.W. Police Dog's Part In Solving Child Murder
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SYDNEY, This Day
The police dog Tess played a major part in solving the murder during the week-end of a child named Marcia Hayes, aged six, of Windsor district. , A large party of searchers was unable to locate the child when Tess, after being allowed to sniff the child’s clothing at her home, set out on a trail across paddocks and finally located the body in a bag in a creek near Hawkesbury River.
The child had been outraged' and strangled. The police arrested a man about 50.
Alfred Spicer, 65, a gardener, has been remanded on a charge of murdering a child named Marcia Hayes, near Windsor, New South Wales, whose body was found in a sack by a police dog.
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Northern Advocate, 28 December 1937, Page 5
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