FRENCH BEACH MYSTERY.
GREEK FAMILY MURDERED. LONDON, Sept. 19.
The correspondent of the Times at Paris states that a mysterious tragedy was recoiled from Cherbourg on Friday. The bodies of a man and a woman, both middle-aged, and of two girls, presumably their daughters, were washed ashore. It was at first thought that they were the victims of a yachting accident, and the funeral was • arranged for to-day. The service had concluded when the police stopped the burial. The obvious happiness which the party had show,, precludes the suicide theory, and it is now thought that they were murdered to conceal a robbery. The absence of identity papers is suspicious, and the man's lace was covered with blood. Hotelkeepers say that the party did not lodsre with any of them, and it is suggested that they were awaiting the liner Danzig, which is overdue. The victims were later identified as Greeks from Salonika. >*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17596, 8 October 1920, Page 5
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