MARSEILLES MYSTERY
MISSING BRITISH OFFICIAL POLICE SUSPECT SUICIDE. LONDON, July 22.. The Marseilles police are convinced that Mr Lee, British vice-consul who disappeared some time ago, committed suicide. They have discovered on the teach near Marseilles a suitcase containing clothing, a half-empty gin bottle, a new revolver case and a box of twentyfive cartridges, eight of which were missing, and presumably had been .loaded in the revolver, wnich was not found. With these things was a man’s photograph, stained by sea water, on which was written in English, “ I am going to commit suicide. No one is to blame.” The police surmise that Lee returned from Valence, where ho saw for the last time the woman with whom he was in love, went to the heach, undressed, drank a large quantity of gin, entered the sea, and shot himself. The bay is to be dragged for his body. Members of Lee’s family, however, state that the clothing found in the suitcase is not his, that the shoes are too large for him, and that the writing on the photograph only slightly resembles his handwriting.
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Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 9
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184MARSEILLES MYSTERY Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 9
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