DROWNING ACCIDENT
JURY'S VERDICT
DEATH OF WEIR TO MOTOR-
CAR FORTUNE
(Received October 26, 10.15 ajn.)
NEW YORK, October 25.
A Coroner's jury at Little* Current; Ontario, gave a verdict that Daniel Dodge, aged 21, heir to a 9,000,000 dollars motor-car fortune, who met a tragic death in the lake district at Mindemoya, Ontario, last August, was accidentally drowned. " He fell from a speed-boat which was racing for treatment of wounds he had received in a dynamite explosion in which h« was injured painfully but not fatally* according to medical evidence.
According to a Montreal message oa August 15, Dodge found a stick of dynamite at a hunting lodge where he was spending his honeymoon with a former ■ telephone girl whom he married after a romantic courtship. Dodge was drying the dynamite inside the lodgs when it exploded. His face was mangled and his wife's legs injured. A launch was taking the party back to Montreal when Dodge, apparently crazy with pain, suddenly jumped overboard into 90 feet of water. Hi« body was recovered weeks later.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 101, 26 October 1938, Page 13
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176DROWNING ACCIDENT Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 101, 26 October 1938, Page 13
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