TRAGEDY FEARED

Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 14

TRAGEDY FEARED

INDICATIONS OF SUICIDE PACT WOMAN FOUND IN SERIOUS CONDITION A MAN MISSING [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, January 1. Mysterious circumstances, including the finding of a number of letters indicating the existence of a suicide pact, attend the disappearance of a resident of. Edehdale, John Llewellyn Davies, of Taumata road, and the finding of a woman, Mrs Julia Cubitt, who has been residing at the Auckland Institute of Trained . Nurses in Liverpool street, who was discovered unconscious on the eastrne tide deflector in the harbour this morning. Only a short distance away were found articles of clothing belonging to both and a number of letters written by both, in which they stated their intention of dying together. The woman was removed to the Auckland Hospital, where to-night she was still unconscious and in a serious condition. Before Mrs Cubitt was found a man’s hat and coat, alongside which were a woman’s’ mackintosh and hat,, were found. Tho police discovered a number of letters written by Davies and Mrs Cubitt, in which both intimated that they were about to enter a suicide pact and drown hemselves. The man’s overcoat was a brown tweed garment. It was ■later identified as one similar to that which Davies had been wearing, as was the hat (a howler), while the brown mackintosh which was found covering a heap of garments belongs to Mrs Cubitt. A:search of the waterfront has been made fruitlessly for Davies, who left his homo on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Cubitt is thirty-three years of age, and is divorced from her husband. There 7 is on© child. Davies, who had a wife and on© child, was forty-five years of ago. Ho was well known in wireless circles.