A MYSTERIOUS DEATH
COUSIN OF ENGLISH JUDGE. MURDER SUSPECTED. (United Press Association,* (By Electric Telegraph'—Copyright.) LONDON, May 4. (Received May 5, at 7 p.m.) Sensational developments are expected in connection with the death eF Miss Olive Branson, a cousin of an English High Court judge, whose body was found in a water tank near the ; villa where she lived at Lesbaux. The police at first Concluded that it was a case of suicide. This the relatives refused to bglieve, and a post-mortem examination revealed a bullet in the head, and bloodstains were found in (he bedroom. It is argued that Olive could not have shot herself and walked to the -tank 20 yards in her stockinged feet and a nightdress. Therefore is a case of murder.—Australian Press Association.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20709, 6 May 1929, Page 7
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