A REVOLTING MURDER
GIRL OUTRAGED AND KILLED. LONDON, July 9. 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 his 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 women, on a charge of murdering Freda Brunnell, aged nine, who disappeared after going an errand to a shop iti Abertillery, where he was employed. 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 hy neighbours, in a lane which had previously been searched. The trial aroused intense local feeling.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 18
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145A REVOLTING MURDER Otago Witness, Issue 3513, 12 July 1921, Page 18
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