SUICIDE PACT IS SUSPECTED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 9

SUICIDE PACT IS SUSPECTED.

MYSTERY SURROUNDS AN AUCKLAND CASE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 1. Mysterious circumstances, including the finding of a number of letters indicating the existence of a suicide pact, attend the disappearance of a resident of Edendale, John Llewellyn Davies, of Taximata Road and the finding Of a woman, Mrs Julia Cubitt, who has been residing at the Auckland Institute of Trained Nurses in Liverpool Street, who was discovered unconscious on the eastern tide deflector in the harbour this morning. Only a short distance away were found articles of clothing belonging to both and a number of letters written by both, in which they stated their intention of dying together. The woman was removed to Auckland Hospital, where to-night she is still unconscious and in a serious condition. Before Mrs Cubitt was found, a man’s hat and coat, alongside which were a woman’s mackintosh and hat, were found. The police found a number of letters written by Davies and Mrs Cubitt, in which both intimated that they were about to enter a suicide pact and drown themselves. A man’s overcoat, a brown tweed garment, was later identified as one similar to that which Davies had been wearing, as was a hat, a bowler, while a brown mackintosh, which was found covering a whole heap of garments, be longs to Mrs Cubitt. Search of the waterfront has been made fruitlessly for Davies, who left home on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Cubitt is thirty-three and is divorced from her husband. There is one child. Davies, who had a wife and one child, was forty-five. He was well-known in wireless circles.