TERRIBLE CRIME.
Offloer’s Wife Shot Dead.
London, August 25
The wife of Major - General Charles E. Luard, of Ightham Knoll, Sevenoaks, Kent, was shot with a revolver by an unknown assassin, and killed. The murderer then stole three rings, the fingers of his victims being badly cut. The crime was committed on the balcony of a summer house situated in some lonely woods attached to Fraukfield, the residence of Mr Horace Wilkinson, at Seal Chart, Sevenoaks. It occurred shortly after the lady’s husband had left her at the wicket gate leading to the woods. He was going to Goddengreeu golf house to fetch his clubs.
It had been the intention of the officer and his murdered wife to spend some days away from home. There is no clue to the murderer.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 429, 27 August 1908, Page 3
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131TERRIBLE CRIME. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 429, 27 August 1908, Page 3
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