MARSEILLES MYSTERY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 5 August 1930, Page 5

MARSEILLES MYSTERY

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LONDON, July 32,

The Marseilles police are eonvinecld) that Mr Lee, British vice-consul, . who disappeared some time ago, committed suicide. , They have discovered on the beach near Marseilles, a suitcase containing clothing, a half-empty gim bottle, a new revolver case and a box of 2o cartridges, eight of which were missing, and presumably had been loaded 1 in:°the revolver, which was not found. With these things (was a man’s photograph, stained by sea. water, on which was written in English, “I ami going to commit suicide. No one is to blame. ’ ’

The police surmise that Lee retime ed from Valence, where ho saw for the last time the (woman with whom he was in love, went to the beach, undressed, dranlk a large quantity of gin, entered the sea, and shot himself. The bay is to be dragged for his bo civ.

Members of Lee’s family, however, state that the clothing found in the suitcase is not his, that the: shoes arc too large ’for him, and that the writing cn the photograph only slightly resembles his hand-writing.