ALPINE MURDER
MAN ROBBED AND THOWN OVER iA PRECIPICE.' The police of Conthey, in the canton of Valais, accompanied by a doctor, climbed up the mountain above Mayeijs recently to examine the dead body of a Swiss named Louis Vergeres lying at thje foot of the precipice, as foul play was feared. , . .7 .! , ;
The that a crime had been couimitted was confirmed, as the victim was nearly naked, and the doctor stated thaj; the position of the bod}' showed that it was not an accident.. |
No trace of the;man's -purse, watcli and chain or clothes were found «ir:th« mountain. Vergeres wa« forty years of age and the father of. five children!. V ■ •-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 8
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112ALPINE MURDER Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 8
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