I'm Sure My Great Uncle Was Murdered Story 9: Linda Groves

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A MURDER mystery was the last thing Linda Groves expected to come across when she started to research her family tree. Yet that is exactly what she found when she began to look into the family name of Groves. She knew that her grandfather, Albert, had two brothers who had died young but when she looked into it further, the death certificate of the oldest brother, Harry, puzzled her.

It said he had suffocated on a carpet at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre in Dover.

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I'm Sure My Great Uncle Was Murdered Story 9: Linda Groves

Naturally, Groves, from Dundee, found that very peculiar and searched to see if any newspaper cuttings related to the death.

A trawl through archives proved fruitful and Groves discovered a local newspaper which had devoted a whole page to the event, under the headline Mysterious Death At Hippodrome.

Apparently, Harry, who was 32, an assistant stage manager, had been seen leaving the theatre on the night he died. "He left the theatre wit...

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