FOUND SHOT
SPEAKER OF QUEENSLAND ASSEMBLY.
TRAGEDY IN PARLIAMENT HOUSE.
ly Telegraph—Press Association—Conyrwh’ BRISBANE March 24.
Mr George Pollock, aged 49, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, was found shot dead in a room M 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. NOTE LEFT. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) BRISBANE. This Day. In connection with the death of George Pollock a note was found in the room which read: “A complete nervous and mental breakdown. Can’t carry on. Too much pain."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1939, Page 7
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