BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST KILLED BY ARABS
(Received 3 p.m.) LONDON, January 10,
Mr J. L. Starkey, British archeologist, who was director of the Wellcome Marston Expedition, engaged in excavations at Lachish, near Jerusalem, was killed in a highway hold-up near Kebron at dusk last night. He was proceeding in a motor car to Jerusalem, when he was ambushed by armed Arabs, who forced him to alight from his car.
They asked him his nationality, and when he told them he was British, made him march ahead and shot him twice. His two Arab assistants were spared.
Mr Starkey, who was aged 46, and is survived by a widow and three children, had had very friendly relations with the Arabs, and it was not expected that his work would be interrupted by the political situation.
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Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 5
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