YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH
AUSTRALIAN CRIME POLICE MAKE ARREST MELBOURNE, April 9. A young man has been charged i with having murdered Ethel Belshaw. The inquiry following the discovery of the girl Bclshaw’s body has been one of the most extensive ever under taken by the Victorian police. Fifty suspects have been questioned during the past three months. Ethel Belshaw, aged 12, who attended a beach carnival on Ja'nuary 2 at Inverloch, South Gippsland, suddenly disappeared. Her body was found in the bush with her hands tied behind her back, a stocking stuffed in her mouth and her head terribly battered. M-cdical evidence disclosed that she had been outraged, then murdered. The body was secreted in the bush a short distance from the spot where she was last seen.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 84, 10 April 1935, Page 7
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128YOUNG GIRL’S DEATH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 84, 10 April 1935, Page 7
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