WAS IT SUICIDE PACT?

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1930, Page 11

WAS IT SUICIDE PACT?

LOCUNA BEACH SHOOTING

ATTORNEY REVEALS AGREEMENT

LETTER LEFT BY MRS. GUY B. POST

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 7.30 p.m. New York, April 27. A message from Laguna Beach says Mrs. Guy Bates Post’s attorney, Mr. Moresby White, stated that he had found a letter dated the day before the shooting in which Mra. Poet and Mrs. Palmer were killed, bearing Mrs. Post’s personal seal, in which she indicated she and Mrs. Palmer had planned a suicide agreement. Mr. White said there was nothing in Mrs. Palmer’s papers to indicate such an agreement'.

Mrs. Guy Batea Post, the divorced wife of the actor, and a woman friend with whom she has been living were ’ found shot dead at the latter’s bungalow. The police reconstructed the tragedy as a murder and suicide resulting from a quarrel over a luncheon invitation. The authorities expressed the view that Mrs. Post, who was 53 years of age and known 'on the stage in her youth as Adele Ritchie, shot, her friend, Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, in the back when the latter started to go to the garage to drive off to a luncheon engagement 'l5 minutes after another friend had arrived with an invitation which did not include Mrs. Post.