OUTRAGE AND MURDER
GIRL’S TERRIBLE FATE TAKEN FROM PICNIC MELBOURNE, Jan. 2. Ethel Belshaw, aged 12 years, who attended a beach carnival yesterday at Tnverloch, South Gippsland, suddenly disappeared. Her body was found in the bush today, with the hands tied behind tile back and a stocking stuffed in her mouth. The head was terribly, battered.
Medical evidence disclosed that she Oad been outraged and then murdered, and the body secreted in the bush a short distance from the spot at which she was last seen yesterday.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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87OUTRAGE AND MURDER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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