CEYLON PLANTER’S ESCAPE
SPECTACLE CASE SAVES LIFE. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] (Received January 24 at 11 a.m.) COLOMBO, January 23. Court proceedings against five men revealed that a spectacle case and pencil in his left breast pocket, saved the life of a planter, Cantlay, who after being shot by robbers, staggered a mile in the darkness from his estate to a bungalow, accompanied by his wife. They lost nearly £lOOO. The spectacle case and pencil were riddled ivith pellets.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1931, Page 7
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80CEYLON PLANTER’S ESCAPE Greymouth Evening Star, 24 January 1931, Page 7
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