MR DARRELL FIGGIS
DEATH FROM GAS POISONING. ASSOCIATION WITH DANCING TEACHER. Prosit Association —By Telegraph—Copy rigtn. LONDON, October 27. Mr Darrell Figgis, the well-known Irish journalist, and a member of Dail Eireann, was found dead in his room at Bloomsbury. . , . . Mr Figgis was a witness at an inquest last week on an Irish dancing teacher named Rita North, who died m the Middlesex Hospital. He said ho had known the deceased for two years. She went to a nursing home, declaring that she would be well in a few days, when, they could be married. Mr liggis took a room at Bloomsbury yesterday, and was found this morning dead in bed. A gas jet was fully turned on. _ A sensation was caused in the free State some time ago by the death of his wife, who engaged a taxicab, drove to the Wicklow Mountains, dismissed the driver, and shot herself. Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19623, 29 October 1925, Page 9
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