GIRLS MURDERED.
EMPLOYER OF ONE VICTIM COMMITS SUICIDE UNABLE TO BEAR SCANDALMJONGERING Ualteu Prees Assn, by El. Tel. Copy-rlgbi ■’Australian Press Assn.v LONDON, Nov. 18. Following the discovery last week of the strangled body of 19-year-old Sarah Coblett, in the manhole of a reservoir, where the body had bqe'n secreted for a month, her employer, Robert Gill, 37, a well-known Cumberland farmer, committed suicide. In a letter to his wife, who is left with four children, and the police and the coroner, he said.: “I am unable to bear scandal-mongering, so I am taking the cowardly way out.” Scotland Yard' is also investigating the murder of Annio Hatton, an 18-year-old domestic who was found strangled, hound and gagged, in the kitchen of her employer’s shop at Hackney. The rooms were ransacked but nothing stolen.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10748, 20 November 1928, Page 5
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