TRAGEDY IN DORSET
WHAT A GAMEKEEPER FOUND (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, April 24. A man and a woman, both with bullet wounds in the head, were found by a gamekeeper sitting dead in a motor car at a lonely spot near Blandford, in Dorset. They were in the rear seat of the car, which had been backed on the roadside across the entrance to a wOod. The mail, whoi was married, aged fifty, lias a grown-up family and was a motor car dealer. He had a German automatic pistol gripped on his hand. The women also was married, aged twenty-five, 4 and had one child. They were known' to be on terms of friendship. The bodies were taken to an inn called "True Lovers' Knot," where the man earlier in the evening had a drink.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 26 April 1923, Page 5
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139TRAGEDY IN DORSET Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 26 April 1923, Page 5
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