SITTING UP DEAD
BLACKPOOL FLAT MYSTERY SOLVED AT INQUEST TWO MEN PLAN DEATH Reed. 9.50 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. A weirdly puzzling discovery was explained at the inquest at Blackpool on William Parker and James Becconsall, who were found in the latter’s fiat sitting on a couch, and wearing overcoats. Both were dead, and there were no signs of injury, of poison, or of any weapon. The affair was a baffling mystery until it was discovered that it was a case of suicide. The men turned on the gas and died. Becconsall’s two small sons, seeing them as though asleep, went out, leaving the door open. Thus the air drove the gas from the house. The bo3*s were discovered in the morning crying because they could not awaken their father. Both men had been drinking, and were heard to say that they were going to “do themselves in."
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 9
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147SITTING UP DEAD Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 971, 14 May 1930, Page 9
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