THE WOODLUPINE MURDER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 26 May 1911, Page 5

THE WOODLUPINE MURDER.

Tho victim of the -muyjtfcasyr^i£B Elizabeth Compton, was the 18-yea rold daughter of an English immigrant, who keeps a poultry farm a mile and a half from the scene of the outrage. r i he girl, who used to do domestic work for Mr, G. Clark, of tho Lands Department, arrived at Mr. Clark’s house at 7.30 o’clock on Saturday morning, May 13, and was told hy him that she need not prepare any dinner, as he would remain in Perth till late at night. Mr. Clark left hy train for Perth soon after. The girl about 9.30 went to a store half a mile away to purchase some jam. When she started hack for Mr. Clark’s house the storekeeper noticed a strange man, apparently about 2o years of ago, walking in the same direction on the opposite side of the road. Mrs. Compton, who usually took her daughter homo in a spring cart, picking her up every evening near the IVoodlnpine station, was -surprised to miss her that evening, hid, drove on home. Subsequently tho gill’s parents went to Mr. Clark’s house to make enquiries. Mr. Clark on his return from Perth had found that the key of ins house, which the girl carried, was missing, and that the dog had not been chained up as usual. Black trackers on Sunday morning discovered evidences of a struggle in the bush between Mr. Clark's house and tho main road, and, following up tho tracks, found the murdered girl in a clump of bushes. The body was lying between a stump and a tree trunk. Her lips were swollen, as Irom a blow; her face was bloodstained, and a red mark on the neck clearly indicated that she had boon brutally choked to death. Hie trackers found sixty yards away the girl’s hair comb, and clear indications that she had been thrown down. Footprints of a man’s fso. 7 hoot were traced following tho girl the hush parallel to the track she was using. Those tracks joined these of the victim at the spot whore the straggle had man rod. about Lit) yards from tho main road. Tho murderer had carried the body about sixty yards to where it ''■os hidden, and the tracks show that he then ran off at top speed.