WHO KILLED DORA GREY ?
SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER DISCHARGED.
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LONDON, October 23
Georgo Ward, who surrendered himself to tha police, confessing to strangling Dora Grey, on Yarmouth beach, haa been discharged, as the police proved he was imprisoned in Lincolnshire at tho time tho crimo was committed. (Dora Grey, a girl of 18 years, was strangled with one of her own shoelaces rjn tho South Beach at Yarmouth early in July. Though extraordinary evidence as to the girl's strange life " and her movements on the night of tho crime wero given at the inquest at Yarmouth, tho mystery was for a long time unsolved. Medical evidence showed that there wero r.o signs of a struggle, and tho position of tho body was "quiet and reposeful." Tho facts as to the girl's •movements brought out wero that she left hor situation, without leave; for a week in June, tho.t sho was seen on several occasions with yachtsmen, and thp.t on the evening of Sunday, July 14, tho night before the crime was discovered, sho was observed walking towards tho South Beach with a man in a grey suit. A couple of weeks ago George Ward, a youthful fisherman, surrendered to tho police, confessing that ho hnd murdered tho girl.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 25 October 1912, Page 5
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