LEE A SUICIDE?
"LIFE NOT WORTH WHILE" LONDON/ 3rd August. "Without you life has no meaning for me,?'-Mr. B. A. Lee, the British Vice-Consul, is stated to have written on 3rd July to Ida Bueher, a. Swiss nursemaid, reports the Marseilles correspondent of the "Daily Mail." Sho told the examining Magistrate that Lee fell desperately in love with her when she was acting as companion to his mother, in 1928. The friendship continued, but, owing to Lee's inability to marry her for family reasons, she decided to break ofi the relationship; Lee pleaded for recon* sidoration of the decision, finally wrote, saying that life was not worth living without her.
It was at first thought that Lee had been the victim of drug-runners, whoso activities he had been investigating. Later the police adopted a suicide theory, but that in turn was set aside for tho reason that the clothes found on. the sea beach where Lee was supposed to have onded his life wore not his size and the handwriting of a note which he loft appeared different from his.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1930, Page 9
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180LEE A SUICIDE? Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1930, Page 9
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