A GHASTLY TRAGEDY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19964, 4 December 1926, Page 13

A GHASTLY TRAGEDY

YOUNG GIRL’S THRQAT OUT MAN CONFESSES TO CRIME. (Press Association —By ' Telegraph—Copj-right.) ,■ MELBOURNE, December B.' - (Received Dec. 3, at 11.30 p.m.) The mutilated body of Emma Hill,; aged 17, was found by the police on the bank of the Yarra. The discovery was made as the resultof the statements of George Devitt, aged 27, who in the early hours of the morn-; ing hailed a taxicab and told the driver that he wanted to be driven to the police . station. Devitt’s throat was cut, and he was covered with blood. .• When he arrived at the station he told the police that he had left the girl dead near the river after cutting her throat, and then cutting his own. After several hours’ search the police found the girl s body. There were evidences of a desperate struggle, and an examination revealed that even after the girls throat had been hacked she had been subjected,, to outrageous treatment. _ . The girl had been in the habit of going out with Devitt, but had lately told him that she did not want to go again with him. After this .repulse Devitt (who in hospital and guarded by the police) became moody, and wrote to the girl arranging the meeting last night.