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True Crime Historian

The Gun Alley Murder

True Crime Historian

Pulpular Media

True Crime

4.5720 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The Mysterious Case Of Alma Tirtschke

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Episode 315 is the sad tale of a 12 year old Aussie girl who disappeared while running errands for her family. Her body was found naked and outraged the following morning. Based on the testimony of some spurious witnesses, as you shall hear, the crown executed the owner of a wine shop near the alley. But did they get the right man?

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Look! Next door are having something done.

0:03.0

That lap panel fencing is gorgeous though.

0:05.0

Wait a minute.

0:06.0

Juice and handy bags!

0:08.0

Said she was in landscaping she did.

0:10.0

Said she had too much on a...

0:12.0

Plate compactor. I'll flatten her, the lion little...

0:16.0

Get to Raleigh Fencing from 24 pound a panel

0:19.0

and tool hired two with plate compact patches from just 51 pound a week.

0:23.2

All trade prices X VAT at 20%.

0:25.9

So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses and the Patels.

0:31.2

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0:48.7

The body was found at 6 a.m. on Saturday by Henry D. Earrington, Marine Store dealer of 46 Cardigan Street, Carlton.

0:56.7

Arrington, who was accompanied by his little daughter, was out gathering bottles. He walked up gun alley and was about to turn into the right-of-way when the nude body of the girl met his

1:02.6

horrified gaze. Quickly realizing that a dreadful tragedy had been enacted, he ran to the

1:09.1

butcher's shop of Mr. Watkins and company on Bork Street,

1:12.9

and at his request, Mr. Watkins immediately telephoned to the Russell Street Police.

1:18.8

The message, which was to the effect that a little girl had been murdered in Little Collins Street,

1:24.5

was taken by Constable Bro, and at 6.13 a.m., Sergeant Salts and Constable

1:30.2

Mason proceeded to the scene in a motor car. Arriving there at 6.15 a.m., they saw the dead

1:38.4

body of a girl, apparently between 12 and 14 years of age, lying in the right of way. The hair, which was

1:47.0

of a ruddy hue, was flowing straight out, giving the impression that the body had been emptied

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