DAUGHTER’S STORY OF DOUBLE MURDER.
(United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ADELAIDE, January 2. Arising out of the murder of Walter Dali and his wife at Kumorna, Frances Dali, a fourteen-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, has been arrested on a charge of murder. Leslie Skilbeck, aged seventeen years, a farm hand, has already been committed for trial on a similar charge. The police, at the inquest, submitted a statement allegedly made by the daughter Frances that she was sick of living at Kumorna. She and Skilbeck planned the shootings and had decided to elope afterwards, but when she saw her father and mother dead, she became frightened and decided to tell the police. Skilbeck is now hunger striking in gaol.
Walter Dali and his wife, both middle-aged, were shot dead at Kumorna, in the south-western portion of South Australia. Dali was a farmer. A seventeen-year-old youth, whom he formerly employed, was arrested and charged with murder.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 1
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