A REVOLTING MURDER
GIRL OUTRAGED AND KILLED. Proes Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 9. (Received July 11, at 0.40 a.m.) Harold Jones, aged 15, has been Arrested at Abertillery (Monmouthshire), charged with murdering Florence Little, aged 11, whose body, outraged and_ with the throat cut, was found hidden in an attic in Jones’s home after several thousand people, including Jones and hie father, had fruitlessly searched all night for the missing girl in neighbouring fields. Jones was acquitted 16 days ago at the Monmouthshire Assizes by a jury, including five wqmen, on a charge of murdering . Freda Brunnell, aged nine, 'who disa|>peared after going an errand to a shop in ' Abertillery, where he was A witness testified to hearing screams in a shed adjoining the shop. Brunnell’s strangled body was found on February 6, after several days’ search by neighbours, in a lane which had previously been searched. The trial aroused intense local feeling*— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18294, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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