‘MOST AMAZING SUICIDE’

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 27 February 1931, Page 4

‘MOST AMAZING SUICIDE’

BOUND MAX SCBBOCATUD. MURDER- THEORY DISM JSSEI), If the conclusions the police and w llege authorities are correct, Erune’s Ullis, Bj-yoar-old freshman at Sidney ussex ■ oVcgw Cambridge, England, •i aged one of i!. ’ nu’.-t amar.ing suicides on record. The grim tragedy is almost inconceivable. Ellis dined in the hall at tid’d on Sunday, chatted freely after dinner, retired to his room, and planned his own ilestruction. He hound ami gagged himself. Hawing this comol: ■■•!-- envelop'd his limbs and face in at hmst two do/cn handkerchiefs Im buried his fare in Hu 1 pillow and suffocate I himself. 11“ was found lying so close to the door that it could b; opened only an inch or two. This fact alone proved Hint nobody could have left the room. Furthermore, tin 1 room was in perfect order. The police carried out experiment - Towing : !"n it was possible lo E ‘ dune with his own hands. Sir But ear! Spihduiry’s report makes it (dear that Ellis put the gag in his ow: mmi\ Ellis was studying archaeology am' ;ui iiwpof' g • and i < dem-ribed as paid -Bilious. and iutcn sc] y interested ir ills studies.