POLICE BAFFLED
MURDERED WOMEN SYDNEY CRIMES. Press AssuJiailjJ Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, Wednesday. A reward of £250 in each ease is offered for information concerning tlie murder of May Miller, wliose body was found on lOtli December, and Bessie 0 ’Connor, aged 10, who was discovered battered to death in National Park on 15th December. The police are baffled. It is suggested that the crimes are the work of the same person concerned in the death of Hilda 'White. There is a striking similarity in the fact that all the bodies' were found in a state of nudity. (The nude body of a woman, identified as May Miller, aged 30, was discovered in Queen’s Park, Waverley, on 10th December. The head was terribly battered with a sharp instrument. The police were of opinion that the woman was foully murdered elsewhere, and the body dumped in the park overnight. Hilda White, aged 32, a New Zealander, was found strangled in Centennial Park on 27tli July. The Coroner returned a verdict of murder against some person unknown.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 December 1932, Page 5
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