A SYDNEY SENSATION.
' Sydney, November 28. A sonsational confession, revealing shocking juvenile depravity, has been made by two girls named Connelly (aged 15) and Moran (aged 16), both inmates of the Parramatta Industrial School. They admitted to the police that they had been guilty of murdering and disposing of the bodies of several infants, and the police are now digging for the bodies at Randwick. • % / , The girl Connelly received money to got rid of a child, and with the aid of the infant’s mother strangled and buried it. She confesses that together with another woman she choked a second infant and threw the body into the sea. It is believed that the girls have been concerned in many other crimes. Sydney, November 30. So far the police have been unable to test the accuracy of the confessions made by the girls Connelly and Moran. No bodies have been unearthed.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1188, 7 December 1894, Page 34
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149A SYDNEY SENSATION. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1188, 7 December 1894, Page 34
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