DEATH OF MISS PORTER
SYDNEY, April 26. At the resumed inquest on the body of Esther Porter, aged 14, whose body, much battered, was found near the Punchbowl railway station on March 4, it was thought possible to suggest a new solution of the mystery. The evidence showed that the deceased was friendly with a baker named Chard, and that occasionally she went for rides in his cart. The detectives submitted a report of a growing conviction amongst the police that it was not a case of murder, and suggesting that the child was riding with Chard, was bumped off the cart, and struck her head on a stump in falling. The medical evidence stated that the wound was compatible with this theory.
The inquest is unfinished, and Chard has beerr bound over in his own recognisance to appear.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3085, 30 April 1913, Page 24
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