WOMAN SLASHED TO DEATH
United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 16. Mrs Katherine Sims, also known as Ball, a resident of the suburb Erskineville, has been murdered in fiendish circumstances. Her attacker inflicted terrible razor gashes in her back and breast, as though trying to reach her heart. He then cut her throat from ear to ear. The neighbours were not aware of the crime. The police a:e searching for a man who obtained a change of shirt nearby ow’ing to the blood bespattered nature of his own shirt. He said he had been the victim of a gang assault.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 375, 17 March 1932, Page 1
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