SCHOOLMATES DEAD
STRONG SUSPICION OF SUICIDE PACT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, February 4. Strange tragedies involving the sons of two well-know New York families occurred within 24 hours in two New England College towns. Francis Grose (21), a first year student at Amherst College, was yesterday discovered dead beneath a railway trestle at Northampton, Massachusetts, from which he apparently leapt. Grose’s chum, Hugh Straus (21), a first year student at Dartmouth College, was to-day found cut in two by a train at Thetford, Vermont, having apparently laid himself across the tracks. The boys had been classmates at a preparatory school until graduation last June. Their parents insist that there was no possibility of a suicide pact.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20335, 6 February 1936, Page 9
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119SCHOOLMATES DEAD Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20335, 6 February 1936, Page 9
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