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weil phe tk ee SO ae at Ts ES et ee Alexande away from helped her. _the. afternoo | train here. Weston arrived in Barcelona the next morning. \ “+ "From MARGARET SHIPLEY - BOULOGNE, Saturday.: ‘wo men found dying in hotel rooms in | ‘Boulogne and Barcelona of the same drug may have taken to their graves part of the Burgess and Maclean secret. Both are beheved ‘to have been inter- nafgonal ‘spies. - T And last night, as the police of France and r raun, @ naturalised Briton. Spain compared the two deaths, M.1.5 and. Scot- land Yard tried to clear up the Loridon end of the mystery. rage who died in died Withoif identity papers he was buried in an un- marked grave. Boulogne was Samuel De eel Because he Officially he 1s A MAN WHO NEVER WAS. They were seen. together The man who died in Barcelona was Ernest’ Weston, International police have found two links betwetrithe then. They. were both In Zurich tn 1953 when Melinda. wife of ralssing diplemat Donald Maclean, and her children slipped ere behind the Iron Curtain. They may have 7 And they were seen together on the Calais steamer on. of January 25. Braun left the .Parjs boat. heir deaths were both due to an overdose of the same”. dpblets-—a German preparation: of the drug luminol—a§d™ ch hed only four tablets left. _.§ -These are the almost identical stories of the deat \of the two mene oes ed ue a a “agttcte, Belg tt AP gh Me ye i tay ttl ow. me a aa ae ban) 9 cael Ne Me Ne gg ae a ‘On Tuesday. January 35. BEAUN engaged a potter Bt logne town station to carry nid bags to. the Hotel Me ok, which has been closed A woh Years. gettied for the small Hote Nouvel a a hack street where et 1 @ peeistratios form in the na at soe at he signed it “Ars The 6! as heavily Tin together but the. ‘capital was unmistakable. He pave his address as News < street, Birmingitam. He did not Jeave the hotel until 2 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27. when he exchanged German and Austrian turren¢y for 7.000 French francs ats. bank. _ Be produced a passport: in the name of Braun, and gave an address in King-street, London. r% 19 pm. he returned to the hhatel. False address aca ninptinaore ar petisermccenanms hE Next day, at noon, a chamler- maid found him in a commas & half-empty luminol bottle at als side. He anes next lent with regaining conscious . OU otha Yard have found no trace of such @ man at any of ! these addresses. Police are asking: Whom did he meet after leaving the bank and return~- ing to his hotel at 10 p.m? Why showWid an intending suicide carry a bag containing 14 pairs of socks, 20 shirts, and four sults? Where ig his passport? Braun may have passed his papers—voluntarily or under pressute—to somecne who pow will never be able to Use them. Did the same person exert e same kind of pressure to ersuacde Braun to end his life? WESTON, the Barcelo hief of Police, said over t ihiephione tonight, booked cm in & smal) pension, © Anita. = Always drunk He had most of his meal? oft, t@d no one of his business agd kept to Hhnesif most of +Be time. He would arrive back aL his hote) arcund 5.a.m. or 6 a.m. always drunk. On February i the staff noticed that he had not appeared from his room that day. They found him sprawled across the bed in a deep coms. He was taken to hospital where he died that night. He, pad only about £6, t his travellers’ cheques were missing. Members of the hotel staff said. that a blond, Russlan- . looking stranger hed called twice at the hotel, and asked for Senor Weston. He refused to leave either name or message, but said he would return. Scotland Yard bas asked for ‘a full raport Both Braun and Weston age lieved to have been “ doulge ents” for both Britain ard the Soviet. althouch the authow- ties. in this country refused ‘knowledge their existence, wTeagt tt ae “ Sa,