PURSUED BY WOMEN.
MAN'S DRAMATIC SUICIDE,
LAST MESSAGE ON A MIRROR.
(Special Correspondent.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, February 9.
Hundreds of fragments of torn-up letters littered the floor of a London hotel room where Private Leonard James Roe, of the Tank Corps, was found dead. All the letters were from women. Roe was a good-looking, generoushearted fellow, 23 years old, and his father, a Weymouth hotel proprietor, said that "women were always after him." A diary found in his belongings contained the addresses.of at least thirty women. Roe's last words were written on a mirror in his bedroom with a shaviii" stick. This was his message: "I'm going. Chin, chin, everybody!!! Who wants to exist, anyhow?"
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 55, 6 March 1935, Page 8
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