DEATH PACT
SUICIDE IN GAR WESTERN VICTORIA TRAGEDY. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, October 2. (Received October 3, at 1.30 a.m.) A death pact was revealed to-day at Coleraine, a town in Western Victoria 100 miles from Melbourne. Leo Cussen Fitzgerald (49), a solicitor, and Clare ■ Doyle (59), were found dead in a sedan car on a lonely road. Apparently they had been dead for several days. News of the tragedy was reeeiyed by Fitzgerald’s partner in a registered letter from Fitzgerald expressing his intention to commit suicide, and containing tho dead plan’s will, saying where his body would bo found. Investigations were immediately _ made and the bodies were found as indicated. There was a length of rubber _ hose from the exhaust through tho window of tho car. Fitzgerald was married with throe chilrden.
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Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 17
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134DEATH PACT Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 17
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