DIED BESIDE HIS HOPES
A Swiss chemist who had been a scientist in Tsarist Russia was found dead in a gas-filled room at his home in Fellowes Road, Hampstead, with beside him notes of an invention' in which all his hopes were placed. The man, Jules Grosjean (59), had taken his wife and a woman friend to the door of a local cinema. He had then returned alone. When his wife went home after the show she found his body.
Near by lay two small tubes, one empty, the other containing white powder.
New Invention. A Russian acquaintance told the Press:— “Dr. Grosjean was well known in Russia. “When I spoke to him recently he had succeeded in inventing something very Important, but he was very depressed, because no one would put money into his invention. “When his body was found, notebooks and papers, containing the formula of his new invention lay nearby. “He intended leaving for Paris shortly, as his Home Office permit to stay in this country is due to expire.”
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Northern Advocate, 10 March 1936, Page 5
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173DIED BESIDE HIS HOPES Northern Advocate, 10 March 1936, Page 5
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