STRANGE TRAGEDIES
TWO FRIENDS KILLED
EACH FOUND ON RAILWAY TRACK
NEW YORK, February 4.
Strange tragedies involving the sons of two well-known New York families occurred within 24 hours in two New England college towns.
Francis Grose, aged 21, a first-year student at Amherst College, was yesterday discovered dead beneath a railway trestle at Northampton (Massachusetts), from which he had apparently leaps. Grose's chum, Jeroma Straus, aged 21, a first-year student at Dartmouth College, and son of Hugh Straus, a noted department store owner, was .today found cut in two by a train at Therf ord (Vermont), apparently having laid himself across the tracks.
The boys had been classmates at a preparatory school until their graduation last June: Their parents insist that there is no possibility of a suicide pact. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1936, Page 13
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