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5V1.’sProbe New Angle In Bride’s DeathTORONTO, May 27 (CP)—The Globe and Mail said in a newspagc story today that suspected dealings in ncross-the-bovder drug traffic were being investigated by police in their P hunt for the key to the mysterious honeymoon drowning of pretty, blonde Christipa Kettle well in the Severn river 150 miles, north‘of here. The story said the police are work-11 ing on offshoots to the case which - j deal, with large sumjJ of money, and r j that, blackmail of. the young bride »-j figured largely in. the .statement made i-j to police by Ronald Barrie, who accompanied the newlyweds on their honeymoon and found the dazed husband in their burning cottage.“Police further suspect that a swank Toronto apartment has been used as the headquarters for the operations, and it was to this ' apartment that '! Christina Kdttlewclt disappeared for | j several days pritfr to her marriage,” the story said. “At that time, a sister of Christina’s said she ’appeared sick and looked as if she had lost 20 pounds.”.“Barrie is said to have told police that Christina gave him a note for $.13,000 on the day she lost her life. His explanation for having the note was that he had advanced her sums ■ i of money from time to lime to pay j persons who were blackmailing her.”
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Medicine Hat Daily News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Tue, May 27, 1947
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