MARSEILLES MYSTERY

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 12

MARSEILLES MYSTERY

MISSING BRITISH OFFICIAL. London, July 22. - The Marseilles police are convinced that Mr. Lee, British vice-consul, who disappeared some time ago, committed suicide. They have discovered on the beach near Marseilles a suitcase containing clothing, a half-empty gin bottle, a new revolver case and a box of 25 cartridges, eight of which were missing, and presumably had been loaded in the revolver, which was not found. With these things was a man’s, photograph, stained by sea water, bn which was written in English, “I am going to commit suicide. No one is to blame.” The police surmise that Lee returned from Valence, where he saw for the last time the woman with whom he was in love, went to the beach, undressed, drank a large quantity of gin, entered the sea, and shot himself. The bay is to be dragged for his body. Members of Lee’s family, however, state that the clothing found in the suitcase is not his, that the shoes are too large for him, and that the writing on the photograph only slightly resembles < his handwriting. • ....