LA MANCHA TRAGEDY
GARDENER DETAINED IN CUSTODY. (Brest Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 9. (Received April 10, at 5.6 p.m.) As the pathologists and analysts will not complete their inquiries for some weeks into the La Mancha tragedy the inquest; lias been adjourned till May 12. The gardener, M‘Cabe, is being detained in custody.—A. and N.Z. Cablq. Early this month, a mansion known as La Mancha in the Coolock district ol Dublin county was destroyed bv fire. The owners Joseph and Peter M’Donnell. who were reported to be wealthy, were found dead, together with their two sisters and a maidservant. There was evidence that the fire'had started in different rooms on the ground floor and the injured bodies of some of the victims indicated that they had been murdered. M'Cabe, the gardener, said he went to a wake at Malahide, and when he returned he found the mansion in flames.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 9
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149LA MANCHA TRAGEDY Otago Daily Times, Issue 19761, 12 April 1926, Page 9
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