A DEATH PACT
BODIES FOUND IN CAR INTENTION EXPRESSED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, 2nd October. A death pact wps revealed to-day at Coleraine, a town in western Victoria, 100 miles from Melbourne. Leo Cussen Fitzgerald, aged 49, a solicitor, and Clare Dohle, aged 59, were found dead in a sedan car on a lonely road. Apparently they had been dead for several days. The news of the tragedy was received by Fitzgerald’s partner in a registered letter from Fitzgerald, expressing his intention to commit suicide, containing the dead man’s will and saying where the body would be found.
Investigations were immediately made and the bodies were found as indicated, with a length of rubber hose from the exhaust through a window of the car.
Fitzgerald was married with three children.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 7
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132A DEATH PACT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 3 October 1936, Page 7
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