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Perth Carpenter
Charged With
Murder of Girl
PERTH, Sunday—A 33
year-old married carpenter
was charged last night with
the murder of 11-year-old
Sandra Dorothea Smith.
He is Mervyn Allan Fal-
lows, of Evans Street, Shen-
ton Park. He will appear in
the Perth Police Court to
morrow morning.
The girl was found raped
and strangled in bushes near
North Beach last Thursday.
The girl's body was found
by three schoolboys.
Police made their arrest
after they had distributed
photographs of a life-sized
doll wearing the girl's cloth-
ing and with her face paint-
ed on it, in the hope of gain
ing information of her
movements before she was
murdered.
A utility truck police im-
pounded on Thursday night
is still being examined by
scientific squad detectives.
The three boys told police
they had told a man aged
about 30 of their find of the
body on Thursday.
The man had said he
would ring police and drove
off in a utility.
About 300 attended the
girl's funeral yesterday.
Her father, Ronald Smith,
a Shenton Park truck driver,
collapsed at the graveside
ceremony.
He had been consoling his
wife when he collapsed.
Friends supported the par-
ents for the remainder of
the service.
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