FAMOUS BRITON SHOT
DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN A CALLOUS MURDERER “Who are you?” asked a masked ! Arab brigand. ! “Inglesi—British," answered Mr. I John L. Starkey, the noted British ! archaeologist. i “Get out and walk,” retorted the { Arab desperado. j Mr. Starkey alighted 'from his car, ! and at the rifle point he was forced to I march a few yards. | Then he was callously shot dead in the back. I That short soliloquy at twilight j ended the life of this distinguished 1 historian. Mr. Starkey had probed the mysteries of the Bible narrative, revealj ing confirmation of the Book of Jeremiah on 12 shards of pottery inscribed iin Aramie, found at Laehish, an ! ancient Jewish fortress which was ! destroyed during Nebuchadnezzar’s ! conquest. Mr. Starkey was travelling west 1 from the town of Hebron towards the , si I c of excavations in the wilderness. • He formerly collaborated with Sir j Flinders Petrie, who is now staying at Jerusalem. Mr. Starkey leaves a ' widow anti two children, who live at Walton-on-Thames. i ______ I
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20465, 4 April 1938, Page 4
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