LONG BAY TRAGEDY
SORDID DETAILS REVEALED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, Juno 16. (Received June 16, at 9.5 p.m.) The inquest on May Anderson was commenced and adjourned till June 24 after sordid evidence had been given as to the victim’s manner of life by her mother and the police. The naked body of a woman was discovered in some scrub at Long Bay on May 13, the indications pointing to a severe struggle having taken place. A later message stated that the body had been identified as that of May Anderson, aged 29 years, a married woman. She had been in gaol several times. Inquiries made by the police established beyond doubt that she had been most brutally murdered, but it was not known how long the bodv hud been in the scrub.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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133LONG BAY TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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