DOUBLE SUICIDE.
UNUSUAL AFFAIR. Received May 14, 1.20 p.m. LONDON, May 13. . A weirdly-puzzling case was explained at the inquest at Blackpool on William Parkes and James Becconsall. They were found in the latter’s flat, sitting on a couch, facing each other. Both were dead, and there were no signs of injury, poison or weapon. Both wore overcoats. The affair was a baffling mystery until it was discovered to be a case of suicide. The men had ,turned on the gas and died. Becconsall’s two small sons, seeing the men, as they thought, asleej>, went opt, leaving the door open. Thus the air drove the gas from the house. The boys were discovered in the morning crying because they could not waken their father. Both men had been drinking and had been heard to say that they were going to do themselves in.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 142, 15 May 1930, Page 2
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143DOUBLE SUICIDE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 142, 15 May 1930, Page 2
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