WAS IT SUICIDE?
What strange creatures ire all 'are! It is a stock story, dear to the heart of the gourmet, that a : zealous-'chef despatched, himself because something went wrong with'ollo of the courses at' ii banquet for which lie was responsible. : ; '. Sir ; Roger Colin .Molyneux Curtis, Bart., reigiis.in the,-stead of his :father-.-because a joker' in tho' > ''wilderness laughingly protested against- the; soup which Sir Arthur Curtis had compounded.
They wero camping out- in tho wilds, en route to'Klondyko, and the Baronet was cook to the party. • : : _ v .. "Why," complained one of tho pioneers, "you seem 'to have turned the river'into the porridge." ' '\ Tliey . were encamped-upon the Mud River. ■" ■ • '
Sir Arthur appears to have taken, the words to heart.. ■He 'wandered forth from tho camp, and did-not return.- They sought for him, but found no trace ; they left word for him to follow to their', next campingground. ■ Ho was never seen again ; and: the .next mention of his name was. in the . Probate Court, where: leave was given to presume his death as having occurred on the day ho death as'; having-occurred on the day lie wandered, alone and unprovided, from tho camp, in June, 1898;—" Sketch."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 10
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197WAS IT SUICIDE? Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 10
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