WAS THERE A SUICIDE PACT?
COLLEGE CHUMS DIE ON SAME DAY. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 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, a 21-year-old first-year student at Amherst College was yesterday discovered dead beneath a railway trestle at Northampton. Massachusetts, from which he had apparently leapt, whip Grose’s chum, .Teroma Straus, a 21-year-old first-year student at Dartmouth College, son of Hugh Straus, a noted department store owner, to-day ■* was found cut in two by a train at Thetford, Vermont, having apparently laid himself across the tracks. The boys had been classmates at a preparatory school until graduation last Juno. Their parents insist there was no possibility of a suicide pact.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1936, Page 5
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