MANSION MYSTERY
THE LA MANCHA TRAGEDY,
OPEN VERDICT RETURNED.
Presa Association—By Telegraph —Copyright
LONDON, June 10. At the inquest on the six victims of the La Mancha tragedy, the jury returned a verdict that the three men died from fractured skulls caused by a person; or persons. unknown. There was no evidence to show how tho women met their death.
[Previous cables stated that five persons were dead—two men and three women. The circumstances of the affair are that a mansion known as La Mancha, in the Coolock district of Dublin County, was destroyed by fire. The owners, Joseph and Peter M'Donnell, who were reported to bo wealthy, were found dead, together with their two sisters and a maid servant. There was evidence that the fire had started in different rooms on the ground floor, and the injured bodies of some of the victims indicated that they had been murdered. M'Cabe, the gardener, who was seriously injured, said he went' to a wake at Atalahid, and when he returned he found the mansion in flames.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19273, 11 June 1926, Page 5
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