BODIES IN A CAR.
A DORSET TRAGEDY. (BY CABLE—PEE 33 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT., (austbalian a.vd n.z. cable association.) (Keceived April 25th, 8.5 p.m.) LONDOX, April 2-i. A man and woman, both with bullet wounds in the head, were found by a gamekeeper sitting dead in a motorcar at a lonely spot near Blandford, Dorset. They were in the rear seat of the ear, which had been backed j across the entrance to a wood. Th;; | man was married, aged S(J, and had i a grown-up family. He was a motorcar dealer. He had a German automatic pistol gripped in his hand. The woman was also married, aged 25, and had one child. They were known to be on terms of friendship. The bodies were taken to an inn called "The Truelover's Knot/' where the man earlier in the evening had bought a drink.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17747, 26 April 1923, Page 13
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