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GIRL’S BODY IN CULVERT
GRUESOME MURDER NEAR ALBURY
One of the most gruesome murders in this State for some time was revealed on Saturday when a farmer found the partly burned body of a young woman clad in pyjamas under a culvert on the Howlong-road, about four miles from Albury.
The discovery was made by Thomas Hunter Griffiths, a well-known farmer in the Albury district, who was leading a bull past the culvert, when he noticed something protruding from it. On investigating, he was horrified to find in a sack the body of a good-looking young woman with fair complexion and light brown bobbed hair. Griffiths hurried to his home, from which he telephoned the police. Police were soon on the scene, and they were horrified when they took from the culvert the sack containing the body. They
