SHOOTING TRAGEDY
Two Women and Girl Dead A KENTISH MYSTERY (Rec. June 14, 7.15 p.m.) London, June 14. A mysterious triple shooting tragedy was revealed by the discovery of the bodies of two well-dressed women, aged about 65 and 85 respectively, and a girl of 18 at King’s Wood, near Challock, Kent. No weapon was found. The victims are Mrs. Janie Swift, of Ye Olde Sportsman’s Inn, Seasalter, near Whitstable: her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Trenayne Stemp, of the White Hart Inn, Wadhurst, Sussex; and the latter’s daughter, Peggy The bodies had evidently been dead for some hours. It is believed that the women and girl were killed and conveyed In a motor-car to be dumped in the wood. The police are using bloodhound# and are also searching for the car In which the trio left Wadhurst for Seasalter. ■
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 222, 15 June 1932, Page 9
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138SHOOTING TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 222, 15 June 1932, Page 9
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