BRUTAL MURDER.
Cries in the Night and Boy’s Body Found. FATHER ARRESTED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 6, 12.50 p.m.) PERTH, April 6. The body of Albert Daniel Mollor, aged 10, was discovered in a motor-car at the rear of a hotel in Fremantle yesterday, with a knife buried up to the hilt between the boy’s shoulder blades. Laurence Oliver Mollor, aged 44, a widower and the boy’s father, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his son. The police were informed that early in the morning a woman’s and boy’s cries of distress were heard from a clump of bushes in the vicinity of the hotel, but the police w T ere unable to locate anybody, although they saw a patch of blood. Later the boy’s body was discovered in the unattended car. In the circumstances it appeared that he was brutally murdered elsewhere and conveyed to the rear of the hotel.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20273, 6 April 1934, Page 1
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