MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY.
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. A gang of Swiss workmen who were excavating for a new road on tho Salcvo Mountain, overlooking Geneva, discovered a few weeks ago, at the depth of a few feet, the skeleton of a women, with a steel dagger firmly wedged between the "scattered beside the body were a number of Swiss gold coins, bearing the date 1710, and also some valuable pearls, which, it is thought, once formed the dead woman's necklace. The opinion was expressed at the inquest that the woman died at about die date marked on the coins. Jhe verdict solemnly added that there »vas nothing to show whether it was murder or suicide that was committed on tho mountainside a couple of centuries ago.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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125MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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