DYNAMITE SENSATION.
A BUSINESS MAN KILLED BY EXPLOSION.
By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright PERTH, August 8. A sensation has been caused by the discovery of the mutilated body of 11. I. Blake, manager and _ attorney for the New Zealand Accident Insurance Company, just outside the town. He left on horseback, announcing that he -intended to carry, a parcel of dynamite to a friend-I-Xis riderless horse, with the sagdie blood-stained, J»d to the discovery of Blake’s body, with his head and trunk close to the read. Attached -to the saddle was a long piece of fuse. „ Deceased was a son of Sir Hy. Blake, Governor of Ceylon. I-lis life insurance with various companies amounted "to £6OOO.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1528, 9 August 1905, Page 2
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115DYNAMITE SENSATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1528, 9 August 1905, Page 2
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