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Tag: Mill Road

Unrequited Love and a Murder-Suicide

March 24, 2023January 1, 2025 Gordon Harris3 Comments
Murder suicide

The 1941 Ipswich Town Report included a tribute to the late Water and Light Commissioner Walter G. Brown without mentioning that he murdered his former girlfriend Phyllis Chisholm and committed suicide.

Posted in TragediesTagged Mill Road, Murder, Suicide, Warner Road
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