ENGLISHWOMAN'S DEATH.
UWUTIONAL DEVBXOPMENTS
EXPBCTBD. w*mJ mbsb *aaoci*TtOK—»t »lbctbic tie tan »a»«_ comuoax.) (Received M»y sth, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 4. H*»»atloaal developments are expeet•i ta connexion with the death of Miss Wive Branson (a cousin of the English fflfh Court Judge, Sir George Bran- •»), whose body waa found in a watertask near the villa where ahe lived #t Leabau*. The police first concluded thjat ahe had »mmUi«d suicide. Thia, the relatives Talnaed to believe, A post-mortem examination revealed a bullet in the head, and bloodstains were found in the bedMosi> It ts argued that the woman «*ui4 not have shot herself and walked to a tank SO yards away in her stockinged feet and nightdress, and that, tWtfore, it Is a case of murder. —AusJulian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19611, 6 May 1929, Page 11
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