LONELY DEATH
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TWO PROSPECTORS FOUND BURIED IN DESERT SAND
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Rec. Sept. 6, 5.5 p.m. Cairo, Sept. 5. Described as an Australian miner of Scottish origin wh'o came to Egypt during the war, a prospector named Duffield, was found huried in the Sand with a companion, an Englishman, named Hess, at a desert gold mine 30 miles north of Kusseir. Duffield is believed to have died from natural causes, while Hess had a revolver clasped in his bony hand. Under lease from the Egyptian Government the pair began to prosP'ect in the Attallah desert in 1927. i They were the only white men in 500 | miles of desolate country.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 321, 7 September 1932, Page 5
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113LONELY DEATH Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 321, 7 September 1932, Page 5
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