DELEGATE TO UNESCO COMMITS SUICIDE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25340, 13 November 1947, Page 7

DELEGATE TO UNESCO COMMITS SUICIDE

MR FRANK MEDWORTH. OF SYDNEY (Rec. 7 p.m.) MEXICO CITY. Nov. 11. Mr Frank Charles Medworth, a member of the Australian delegation to the UNESCO assembly, slashed his wrists and died this afternoon in his hotel room in Mexico City. Doctors gave Mr Medworth blood transfusions, but he had already lost too much blood. Mr Med worth left letters for his wife, for the chairman of the Australian delegation (Mr E. R. Walker), and for the manager of the Hotel Reforma where he was staying. The hotel manager said that the letter written to him was somewhat incoherent, but Mr Medworth mentioned that he had been considered "crazy” by other delegates because of a head wound he had received during the First World War. Mr Medworth, an Englishman, had been in Australia since 1939, as chief lecturer in the art department of the East Sydney Technical College. He was born in London in 1892. and studied at the Royal College of Art. He was a Board of Education examiner from 1932 to 1934, and head of the drawing and painting school at the Hull College of Art and Crafts, from 1935 to 1938. He had become weii known as a painter and engraver in Australia.

German Prisoner Killed.—-German prisoners in camp at Wooler, Northumberland. have been confined to barracks while the police investigate the death of one of their number. Eugen Mergenthaler. aged 41. who wa> found dead about two miles from the camp. Mergenthaler had been beaten over the and appeared to have been brutally kicked The dead man’initials were found scratched in thu sand beside the body.—London, November 11.