JOINED IN DEATH.
LIFE'S SEAMY-SID€. —— [By Eleotrio Telegraph—copyright] [United Press 'Association.! London, October 5. (Received 9.35 a.m.) London. October 5. Major C. Hamilton Murdoch and Phyllis Boakes were found decapitated on the railway at Soutliend. The right hand of the man and the left hand of the woman were tied together, i . The Major was sixty-three years of age, and was recently at a nursinghome, .where his wife had been Hving, paralysed and unable to'walk,for eight years. There he met Boakes, a probationer,, an attractive girl, of 23. Their intimacy was noticed and Boakes was dismissed. The couple lived together, until their money was exhausted'and "then committed suicide.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 30, 6 October 1913, Page 6
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108JOINED IN DEATH. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 30, 6 October 1913, Page 6
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