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A WEIRD DISCOVERY

EXPLAINED'-"AT INQUEST,

(United Prßse Association—By Electric i. Telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 13

A weirdly puzzling discovery was explained at an inquest at Blackpool. William Parkes,' and James Beeconsall were found in- the latter’s flqt sitting on a couch facing < ach other wearing overcoats,, - Both were dead ■and there were no signs of injury from poison or a weapon. The affair was a baffling mystery until it was discevered to be ,a case of suicide. The men had turned on the gas and died. Beoconsall.’s two /.small sons seeing the men, as they thought, asleep, went out 'leaving, the door open and thus the ' air drove the gas from the house. The boys were discovered in the morning crying because they could not waken their father. Boh men had been. drinking and had been heard to say they were going to do themselves in.

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Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1930, Page 5

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A WEIRD DISCOVERY Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1930, Page 5

A WEIRD DISCOVERY Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1930, Page 5

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