NOLLE PROSEQUI.
MONA GRIFFITHS’ MURDER.
McMAHON PROVES ALIBI
United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. MELBOURNE, Feb. 18.
Robert McMahon, who was charged with the murder of Mona Griffiths at Bentleigh was released from custody to-day, the Crown having entered a nolle prosequi. The Crowd Prosecutor intimated that McMahon had established beyond doubt that he was 100 miles away from the scene of the murder when it was committed.
Mona. Griffiths was a young girl who was enticed away from her playmates by a strange man, and her dead body was subsequently found in an empty house. It bore evidence of atrocious maltreatment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18257, 19 February 1931, Page 7
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101NOLLE PROSEQUI. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18257, 19 February 1931, Page 7
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