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| | Tracking down a most unlikely hero |
 | | It was not enough to kill him outright or leave lasting evidence, but he died from liver damage two days later, on Jan 28, in St Pancras Hospital, and his body fell, in the normal course of events, to the attention of W Bentley Purchase, the coroner for the district. |
 | | Glyndwr Michael's small but valuable place in history arose from the fact that, shortly before his death, Mr Purchase had been contacted by his old friend and colleague Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the foremost forensic pathologist in Britain at the time. |
 | | Sir Bernard told Mr Purchase that, as part of a vital war mission, the intelligence services were seeking the body of a male in his mid-30s, whose cause of death could be confused with drowning. |
| www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/28/nhero128.html (1423 words) |
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