Chrissie Venn - Suffer Little Children - North Motton unsolved murder, 1921

Chrissie Venn: Suffer Little Children examines the murder of 13-year-old Chrissie Clare Venn at North Motton, Tasmania on 26 February 1921, a case that remains unsolved. George William King, a member of the search party, was tried and acquitted in August 1921, defended by A.G. Ogilvie - later Premier of Tasmania - against Solicitor-General L.E. Chambers for the Crown; the trial turned substantially on contested witness timelines.

Authors Noel and Lucy Smith work through the case chapter by chapter - the coronial inquest, the committal hearing, the medical evidence, the trial and verdict, and a dedicated chapter weighing who killed Chrissie - with a separate appendix setting apart the myths and legends that have grown up around the case from the documented record.

The book is long out of print and genuinely hard to find, covering a case that continues to draw sustained local and true-crime interest.

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BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover book
• Published 2000
• 274-pages, indexed
• Black/white photos

CONDITION

Used but generally good condition. Some marks to cover. Covered in clear contact plastic. Previous owner's name covered over in the front. Some wear to edges of page block.

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