Don Antonio Arrom de Ayala, the Spanish consul to Australia, committed suicide in the Duke of Marlborough's Blenheim Park at Woodstock in England. On his person was a long letter addressed to the Duke apologizing for the intrusion. He wrote, "It may be a childish feeling but one cannot blow one's brains out in a common road... So I have not found another proper place to die decently than your handsome park, and you must bear the inconvenience of a dead man in your grounds. I mean no offense." (By John Osborne)