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MYSTERIOUS CRIMES EMPLOYER KILLS SELF (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. Noon. LONDON, Sunday. Following the accidental discovery last w-eek of the strangled body of a 19-year-old dairymaid, Sarah Coblett, in a manhole at a reservoir (where the body had been secreted a month), her former employer, Robert Gill, aged 37, a well-known Cumberland farmer, has committed suicide. He sent a letter to his wife (who has four children), to the police and to the coroner, saying he was innocent, but that he was unable to bear the suspicion and scandalmongering and so was taking the coward’s way out.
Scotland Yard is also investigating the murder of Annie Hatton, aged 18, a domestic. She was found strangled, bound and gagged in the kitchen of her employer’s shop at Hackney. The rooms were ransacked, but nothing was stolen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 515, 19 November 1928, Page 9
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139STRANGLED GIRLS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 515, 19 November 1928, Page 9
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