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BRUTAL CRIME REVEALED ATTI7MPT TO BURN BODY (Australian Press Assn.—United Service. BRUSSELS, July 19. Madame Evelyne Brelia, a singer well-known on the Continent, was found dead at Charleroi in circumstances recalling the. Le Tourquet murder. Her husband, M. Quiuet, director of the Charleroi Conservatoire, went for a swim and when he returned he found that his wife had gone to pick flowers. When she did not return he organised a night-long search. Madame .Brelia'« body was found hidden in'undergrowth ~ii) yards from the home. She had been strangled; some of her clothes had been stuffed in her mouth. There was every evidence of a terrible struggle. The murderer had tried to bum the body. No jewellery was stolen. AN ARREST MADE (Australian Press Assn.—United Service. l (Received July 21, 11 a.m.) BRUSSELS, duly 20. An armed Pole was found in a ditch near the Brelia's house and arrested.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16703, 21 July 1928, Page 5
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