CHARGE OF MURDER
ENGLISH SCHOOLBOY INVOLVED Onlted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 27. A schoolboy, aged 13 years, was charged at Holloway with the murder of Beryl Oborn, aged four, whose bound and gagged corpse was found in a sack in a shed behind her mother’s house. The boy went to school as usual and was arrested at lunch time. The girl’s distracted mother and neighbours spent the night searching for the child and the woman discovered the body when she visited the shed for scullery purposes. Death was due to stangulatlon.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21180, 29 October 1938, Page 17
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93CHARGE OF MURDER Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21180, 29 October 1938, Page 17
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