LOST IN DESERT
DEATH FROM THIRST AIRMAN’S WIDOW AND COMPANION CLOTHES IN SHREDS (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) Algiers, June 2. Mrs Ronald Knight, aged 26 years, the widow of the airman recently killed in .the crash at Agadez, died of thirst in the Southern Sahara with an English travelling companion, Mr Peyton. Peyton and Mrs Knight, accompanied by a Frenchman, M. Huebert, . left Agadez on May 22 on a motor trip to the El Hogger mountains. They lost their way and the English pair, rejecting the wiser French counsel to await a search party, went in search of help, hoping to reach Tamanrasset. The search party found the Frenchman in a hollow scraped in the sand under the car where he had taken refuge for five days. He was almost dead from thirst. Later, the searchers found Mrs Knight’s body. Her bloodstained clothing was in tatters and her hands and thighs were covered with penknife wounds inflicted either with the intention to commit suicide or to drink her own blood to relieve her thirst. Marks in the sand indicated that she writhed in agony. The rescuers then found Mr Peyton dead from sunstroke with his clothes in shreds.
The police have ordered the exhumation of the victims who were buried where their remains were discovered.
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Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 7
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216LOST IN DESERT Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 7
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