ALLEGED MURDER BY GIRL
BOTH PARENTS SHOT.
YOUTH ALSO CHARGED.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received January 11.5 p.m.) ADELAIDE, Jan. 2. As a sequel to the deaths of a farmer, Walter Dall, and his wife, at Kumorna, on Tuesday, Frances Dall, their daughter, aged 14, has been arrested on a charge of murder. Leslie Skilbeck, aged 17 years, a farm worker, has already been committed for trial on a similar charge. The police at tho inquest concerning the deaths, submitted a statement alleged to have been made by the daughter Frances, that she was sick of living at Kumorna. She and Skilbeck planned to shoot her parents and afterward to elope, but when she saw her father and mother dead she became frightened, and decided to tell the police. Skilbeck is now hunger striking in prison. A message from Adelaide on December 50 said: Walter Dall and his wife, both middle aged, were shot dead at Kumorna, in tho south-western portion of South Australia. Dall was a, farmer. A youth of 18, whom Dall formerly employed, was arrested and charged with murder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 9
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184ALLEGED MURDER BY GIRL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 9
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