DEATH OF CHILD
HASTINGS MURDER INQUEST. persistent police work. By Telegraph—Press' Association. Hastings, Last Night. At an inquest to-day on Joan Rose Rattray, the child who was found dead in the Karamu Creek bed on July 3 after disappearing while on the way home from school the previous day, the coroner, Mr. G. Ebbett, found that she was violently assaulted and injured, and then had her face pressed into the mud till she was asphyxiated. The coroner commended the police for their pertinacity and said that though the child’s parents would be disappointed that the murderer’s identity was not uncovered, they would agree that nothing had been left to chance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1935, Page 5
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