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DEATH BY ROADSIDE
Woman's Peculiar Fate
BENCUBBIN MYSTERY
The meagreness of details concerning
a woman's death at North Bencubbin
yesterday makes the case seem mys
terious. Mrs. Mollie Smith, wife of
J. Smith, a farmer of North Bencubbin,
was found dying on the roadside, and
as far as information received in Perth
suggests, there is little to show how she
came by her death.
The Commissioner of Police in Perth
learned from Inspector Crowe, of Nor-
tham, that Mrs. Mollie Smith left her
husband's farm intending to visit some
neighbors some miles distant. She left
by horse and sulky. As she did not re
turn In the evening it was thought that
she had remained at the neighbor's for
dinner and had slept the night there.
Little thought was given to the matter.
This morning, Robert Harper, who Is
employed at Smith's place, saw a sulky
on the road about a mile from the farm,
and on closer inspection found that a
dead horse was attached to it. It was
the vehicle in which Mrs. Smith had
driven off the previous day.
Harper followed the tracks of the
sulky and about two miles from the
homestead found Mrs. Smith uncon
scious on the roadway. On the arrival
of Dr. S. Finkelstein, of Kununoppin,
the woman was dead.
This afternoon neither Constable
White, of Bencubbin, nor the doctor had
returned from the scene of the mishap.
No further particulars could be obtained.
Mrs. Mollie Smith is understood to
have been formerly Mrs. Townshend,
and to have one daughter. Her hus
band, Mr. Jack Smith, is a well-known
and respected farmer at North Ben
cubbin.
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