A TRAGIC END

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 103, 28 October 1925, Page 6

A TRAGIC END

DEATH OF AN HUSH If REE STATE

DEPUTY

(UNITED rtICSS ASSOCIATION—COI'I'RIUUT.)

(KEI/TIT.'S I'ELCUKAU.J

(Received 28th October, 2 p.m.)

LONDON, 27th October. Mr. Darrell Figgis, a well-known Irish journalist ancf a member of the Diiil Eireami, was found dead in his room ;it Uloomsbury. I^ingis was a witness at the inquest lost week of. Ihe Irish dance teacher, Jlitu North, who died in tho Middlesex Hospital. He said he had known the deceased eirl for two years. She went to a nursing home, declaring that she would be well in a few days, when they could be married. Figgis look a room in Bloomsbnry yesterday, rind was found this morning dead in bed, with a gas jet fully turned on.

In the Free State some time ago a sensation was, caused by the death of his wife, who engaged a iaxicab, drove to tho Wieklow Mountains, where she dismissed tiie driver and then shot herself.