MYSTERY STORY
DEATH OF BRITISH AGENT IN FRANCE BODY FOUND IN WELL (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 19. Two Scotland Yard detectives arrived at Toulouse to-day for an inquiry into the death of a British subject, Christopher Lord, stated to have been a secret, service agent, who parachuted to France in 1943, says Reuter’s Toulouse correspondent. Lord’s body was found at the bottom of a well in the village of Tanus on June 23, 1943. It was exhumed last June and identified by his wife. The Toulouse police at the time when the body was discovered detained men who claimed they themselves were British secret service agents. They asserted that Lord was a “double agent” and that they killed him on orders from London by secret radio. These two men disappeared when France was liberated and have not been seen since then. The French police and Scotland Yard men are now investigating the theory that one of the two men was himself a “double agent.”
It has also been found that Lord was carrying a considerable amount of money when he was killed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1946, Page 7
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