MARSEILLES MYSTERY.
MISSING BRITISH OFFICIAL, POLICE SUSPECT SUICIDE. LONDON. July 02. The Marseilles police arc convinced that Mr. Lop. British vice-consul, who disappeared sonic lime ago, committed suicide.
They have discovered on the beach near Marseilles a suitcase containing clothing, a half-empty gin bottle, a new revolver ease and a box of 25 cartridges, eight of whicji were missing, and presumably had been loaded in the revolver, which was not found.
Willi these tiling* was it man's photograph, sinitip.tl by sea water, on which was written in English, " I am going to commit, suicide. No one is to Manic."
Tlu\ police surmise tliiit Leu lotunied from Valence, where lie saw for tliu last time Ibe .woman with whom he was in love, went to the beueh, undressed, dranlt a large quantity of gin, entered the sea, and shot himself. . ~
The hay is to be dragged for his body. Members of Lee's family, however, state that the clothing found in tlie suitcase is not his, Hint the shoes arc too large for him, and lliat the writing on tlio photograph only slightly resembles his handwriting.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20628, 29 July 1930, Page 9
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