SHOT IN PARLIAMENT HOUSE
Speaker Of Queensland Assembly
(Received March 25, 1.30 a.m.)
BRISBANE, March 24,
Mr. George Pollock, aged 49, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was found shot dead in a room of his suite in Parliament House today. A shotgun was near the body.
The police are satisfied that he was not the victim 'of foul play. Mr. Pollock had been speaker for seven years and a Member of Parliament since 1915.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 15
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74SHOT IN PARLIAMENT HOUSE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 15
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