MYSTERY SOLVED.
DEATHS OF TWO MEN. (tiH*i!D rases ABSoeutto*— at »tsc*»ie LONDON, May 13. A pusaling discovery was explained at an inquest at Blackpool in the deaths of William Parkes and James Beeconsall, who were found in the latter '# flat sitting on a eoueh fac ing each other. They were wearing overcoats, both were dead, and there were ao signs of injury, poison, or weapon* The affair was a mystery until it was discovered to be a ease of suicide. The men had turned on the gas and had been suffocated. Beeconsail >s two small sens, seeing the men, as they thought, asleep, went out. leaving the door open. Thus the air drove the aai from the house. The boys were discovered in the morning, crying because they eould not waken their <«tnf'.. Both men had been drinking and had boon heard to say that they were going "to do themselves in."
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19928, 15 May 1930, Page 11
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