BRUTAL CRIME.
Jewel Traveller Killed And Incinerated. £6000 ROBBERY. \Received 11-30 a.m.) PARIS, February 29. The man who was murdered at Melun (being found incinerated in a ditch) has been identified as a young traveller, Gaston Truphene. He was missing for two days and was in possession of jewels and precious Stones worth £5000. 'His head was terribly battered, presum- ' ably by motor bandits, who tied his body, soaked in petrol, in a sack and set Are to m it. A clue is supplied by a butcher boy, ' Who found a motor car containing discarded bloodstained tins. ■i
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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98BRUTAL CRIME. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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