FRONTIER TRAGEDY.
LONDON. Dec. 2
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says that the bullet-riddled bodies of three young men, sons of farmers of the village of Vail, have been found in an open grave covered with branches in a forest near the Dutch frontier. One died from suffocation, having evidently been buried alive; the others had been thrown on top of his body. A gamekeeper has been arrested, and his allegation is that he shot the youths as poachers. The villagers believe that smugglers, thinking they had been betrayed, shot the youths out of revenge. The police are seeking another youth who is reported to be missing. , . „ The frontier abounds with w ellarmed smugglers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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116FRONTIER TRAGEDY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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