GIRL’S DEATH EXPLAINED
POISONED BY HER FATHER. NEW SOUTH WALES INQUIRY. py Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 8.30 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 24. After further, evidence at the inquiry into the death of May Schubert, the coroner returned a verdict that the girl died from strychnine poisoning feloniously administered by her father, whose whereabouts are unknown. Detectives for many weeks have been trying to solve the mystery of a girl’s skeleton discovered in a lonely bush at Redhead, near Newcastle, stated an earlier cable. They have finally established identification by means of jewellery. false teeth, and articles of apparel. She is May Schubert, aged 14, a former resident of Gloucester, a North Coast village. Evidence at the inquest elicited the fact that she was brought
Newcastle early in the year to enter a maternity home. Her father accompanied the girl, who was not afterwards seen. Her father has since disappeared and cannot he traced.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 9
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