CHILD MURDERED.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 30 December 1926, Page 5

CHILD MURDERED.

ON LONELY SHEEP STATION. EX-EMPLOYEE ARRESTED. i'Ptr Press Association—Copyright.) i SYDNEY, this day. On August 24th the six-year-old daughter of Moss Smith,, of Poolamacca station, near Broken Hill, disappeared. Since then a search by police bands, residents and black trackers in the wild country for many miles around has been, made, and an aeroplane scouted far and wide. Clairvoyants and Spiritualists were consulted and predicted that the child was still alive. The parents offered £lOOO reward for the recovery of the child. Yesterday an employee of' the station was gathering sticks a short distance from 'the homestead and’ saw the child’s foot protruding from a shallow grave and unearthed the body of the missing girl. It bore no signs of violence. Later James Hughes, who left Moss Smith’s employment shortly after the disappearance of the child, was arrested and remanded on- a charge of murdering her.