DONE TO DEATH

Southland Times, Issue 19346, 11 September 1924, Page 7

DONE TO DEATH

BRUTAL CRIME REVEALED. WOMAN’S MYSTEROUS END. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, September 10. (Received September 11, 1.25 a.m.) The fact that Miss Enwright, 69 years of age met death by foul play at her farm at Benalla, has been proved beyond doubt. The inquest has opened and medical evidence disclosed two bullet wounds in the head. Portions of flattened bullets of a small calibre were entangled in her hair. The indications are that she was {shot from a considerable distance and had apparently been dead for several weeks. Deceased inherited a farm of 293 acres from her father, and lived a lonely life since the death of her mother, twelve years ago. Rumours are current that she kept a large sum of money in her house, which had been ransacked, apparently at the time of the tragedy. The body of Miss Enwright was found in a crevice among rocks, about 200 yards from her residence. A shovel found 250 yards from the body has been identified as the property of a neighbouring farmer, who says that it had been stolen.