DEATH OF HEIR TO DODGE FORTUNE
ACCIDENTAL DROWNING AFTER EXPLOSION (Received October 26, 6.30 p.m.) LITTLE CURRENT (Ontario), Oct. 25. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict that Daniel Dodge was accidentally drowned when he fell from a speed boat when racing for treatment for wounds received in a dynamite explosion, when he was injured painfully, but not fatally, according to the medical evidence.
Daniel Dodge, aged 21, heir to the motorcar fortune of 9.000,000 dollars, met a tragic death in the lake district of Mindemoya (Ontario) on August 15. Dodge found a stick of dynamite at the hunting lodge where he was spending a honeymoon with a former telephone girl whom he married on August 2 after a romantic courtship. He was drying the dynamite inside the lodge when it exploded. His face was mangled and his wife’s legs were injured. . The caretaker, Bryant, was seriously injured. A launch was taking the party to the township of Mindemoya when Dodge, apparently driven crazy by pain, suddenly jumped overboard in 90ft of water. A message from Little Current on September 9 stated that Dodge's body was found by a fisherman, floating in the north channel of Georgian Bay.
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Southland Times, Issue 23650, 27 October 1938, Page 6
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