SUICIDE INDICATED
COLONEL GISBORNE'S END United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received 20th October, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The late Colonel Lionel Guy Gisborne, whoso death from a fall from an upper window of the Union Club, Sydney, was announced yesterday, according to a statement by tho police, came to Australia to aeo the cricket Tests. He left a note indicating his intention to commit suicide. Colonel Gisborne, who succeeded his father, the Hon. William Gisborne, M.L.C., in the possession of valuable property in Derbyshire in 1898, was born in Wellington, which ho revisited on a woild tour with his wife in 1907. He was on active service practically throughout the late World War, and fhe strain left him with heart trouble, on account of which he was invalided out.! At his residence at Lingen Hall, Bueknell, Shropshire, he took up farming, and won many prizes at shows with his Jersey herd.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 26 October 1928, Page 9
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