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SHOCKING MURDER CASE. DAIRY FARMER'S DAUGHTER. YOUNG MAN ARRESTED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyni". (Received April 15, 11.15 p.m.) Sydney, April 15. A shocking case of murder .is reported from MaitLand. A girl, 16 years of age, named Lilian Bridge, a daughter of a dairy farmer, near Maitland, was found butchered in a paddock. The girl's head had been fearfully battered, the weapon used having evidently been a tomahawk or an axe. A young man named Green has been arrested on suspicion of having committed the murder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13726, 16 April 1908, Page 5
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