DAUDET MYSTERY
SUICIDE NOT MURDER,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND ASSOCIATION.) (Received 15th March, 10 a.m.) , LONDON, 14th March. 'The Morning Post's" Paris correspondent understands that the Examining Magistrate is convinced that Philippe Daudet committed suicide, and the murder charge laid by the deceased's father must be abandoned.
On 25th October Philippe Daudet, the 15-year-old son of Leon Daudet, tho Royalist leader and director of the newspaper, "L'Adion Francaise," was found dead in a taxi-cab with a.revolver bullet in his head. His father would not accept the verdict of suicide and charged the police with conspiring to procure the murder of his son. The case assumed a scandal of a political character, but all the evidence, including that of the doctors, pointed towards suicide. The boy was imbued -with anarchist views and had quarrelled with his father. . ■ , I
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 15 March 1924, Page 7
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139DAUDET MYSTERY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 61, 15 March 1924, Page 7
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