SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD
BODIES OF MAN AND WOMAN FOUND Press Assc nation—liy Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 20. (Received December 20, at 1 p.m.) What appears to be a case of murder and suicide was discovered at Punchbowl suburb. The bodies are believed to be. those of Wallace Ducie f thirty-two) and Jessie Smith (twenty). They were found in the scrub. Weeks of exposure to weather and the ravages of ants made the bodies almost unrecognisable. The theory of a double murder has not been dispensed with. Both victims were shot through the temple.
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Evening Star, Issue 20363, 20 December 1929, Page 12
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93SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD Evening Star, Issue 20363, 20 December 1929, Page 12
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