LA MANCHA FIRE.
INQUEST ON THE VICTIMS. LONDON, June 10. At an inquest on six of the victims of the tragedy' at La Mancha, near Dublin, the jury returned a verdict that the three men died from fractured skulls, caused by a person or persons unknown, but there was no evidence to show how the women met their death.—Reuter.
A mysterious murder was revealed at the end of March at a fire at a country mansion known as La Mancha, near Dublin, which was owned and occupied by Joseph and Peter McDonell, their two sisters, a servant, and a gardener. A workman noticed that the mansion was ablaze. On arrival the fire brigade found the body of the gardener in a room in the basement. He had large wounds in the head. Peter McDonell was found naked in a back room. Clothes were spread over his dead body. Joseph was dead in another room. The upper part of the mansion, which was on fire, contained the practically cindered bodies of the sisters and the servant.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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