FARMER'S BODY
FOUND IN LOG FIRE
BRISBANE, Feb. 20.
A few bones with a set of false teeth found to-day in the. ashes of a fire about seven miles'from Toogoolawah are believed to be all that remnins of the body of Charles William Henry Rollo Somerset., about 41.
It is understood that Somerset left n note for Mr. C. N. Turnes, with whom he was in partnership'on a farm.
It is believed he stood on a. smouldering log and shot himself. He was a son of Henry Plantagenet Somerset, one of the pioneers of Brisbane Valley, and a former member of Parliament.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 5
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102FARMER'S BODY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18955, 4 March 1936, Page 5
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