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'FLAT TRAGEDY.
CAPTAIN AND HIS YOUNG
·WIFE SHOT DEAD.
A Londen wire of August 8
Captain Thoinas Jolin Roy Geddes, Squadron-Officer, Four- teenth Prince of Wales Owa
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a sofa in the sitting-room of his Ast|| in Gordon Chanibers, Piccadilly.
The steward of the flats sintes But Mrs. Geddes came downstairs -and-asked-him-to sumundu.... doctor, as Captain Geddes had shot himself. She then rushed upstairs and a few moments later, another shot sounded." The police were immediately on the seere, and „Komnd Mr«,"Geddes shot dead, with aerovólver near ber, while Captain Godbles was found in mother Tom,
The couple are described na liaving been affectionate and-hand-|| sone. Cantain Gendes was at the fine on leave and was due to return to Tudia next month.
The theory accepted by the police as probably correct is that, Captain Geddes went to the bath- room where he shot, but only wounded, himself, and that, after his wife had called for help, she bent over him to give assistance, when her husband raised the mistol and discharged it at her.
There are indications that Mrs. Geddes, bleeding profusely, was from the bathroom and collapsed in pue of the front apartinents..
later message states that the Police who are engaged in the mystery love not reached a unani mons conclusion us to the manner of the tragedy, but have definitely established that not both committed suicide.
A further message HIVA Captain Gédios, who was found -shot-in-a-London-flate-is-Sir-Frank.j
Stv Aide-de-Camp, --
11 is mumised that Captain! Giedlca grid his wife entered a suicide met. but that the wife Temporarily lost her nerve ·when- "her" husband · shot himself, and raised the alarm, but then went un in the fat nguùn and shot hersell with a revolver. She died after being taken to hospital.
A letter in Captain Gedden' rocket addressed to his wife.in- dientes that his sulfide was due to Gancial troubles,
The couple were married in Bengal last year, and were most devoted to each other,
The identity of Mrs. Geddes has not been fixed, One report says that Sir Frank Sly's daughter, Joan, married a Captain Geddes last year, while another says she was the daughter of a colonel at cne line commanding the troops in Raipur.
According to the papers, police inquiries show that Capt? Geddes and his wife lived most extra. vagantly since their arrival in England and their money was exhausted.
Captain Geddes was a native of Somerset, nd, it is understood. was related to Sir Eric Geddes The wife, according to a friend who often entertained the couple, fre- quently spoke of her father, Sir 'Frank Sly, Governor of the Central Provinces, for whom she acted as hostess and once entertained the Prince of Wales, during his, visit: to India.
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...Marie Corelli, being dead, I have USA, where many miners were recently entombed is the world's no desire to speak ill of her (says a writer in the "Star"). I have ho deepest hole. It is 7,579 feet deep, or almost a mile and a half, and real desire to speak of her at all, was bored in search of natural gas, But her spiteful will makes it After an illness of only a week's which is sold commercially. Until necessary for somebody to say duration, the death occurred on
that boring was completed the something, and I hope that Strat- July 2, at 14, Chalmers Crescent, deepest hole was at Czuchow, ford-on-Avon will speak up for itself. Stratford is Shakespeare Edinburgh, of Mr. James Matthew Silesia, 7,349 feet deep. Both these and Shakespeare is Stratford, and son Pratseli, who was a well known borings were too small for a manj figure in Edinburgh and Scottish
to descend them. But at least the sooner Miss Marie Corelli's bowling circles. Mr. Pretsell, who two mine shafts have been sunk brief and unimproving association was 41 years of age, took ill with over a mile (5,280 feet)
with the famous town is forgotten pneumonia, but hopes were enter There are the Village Deep shaft means can be found for renounc the better for everybody. If tained almost to the last that he
in the Rand, and the Morro, Velho would make a good recovery, Mr
shaft in Brazil, which is 6,420 feet1ng probate or doing some other of those mysterious legal things by Pretsell was also well known in
deep. Temperature rapidly in Edinburgh in connection with the
creases the deeper we go, and which one repudiates a bad will, 1 | M'Ewan-Pretsell scheme, which recent scientific tests in South hope that the "trust which would
Regists apprentices and
other Africa showed a steady tempera make of Miss Corelli's house a young people to continue their ture of 157 deg. Fahr. at 4,912 feet. Perpetual and spiteful jest may be education at Heriot-Watt College The heat is much greater in some
quashed. and also assists in providing kinds of rock than others. But if Crime and Cleverness. facilities for sport. His father was we got down to 10,000 feet we one of the founders, and Mr. should probably find the tempera Pretsell carried on the scheme with
ture at least 212 deg., the bolling energy and enthusiasm.
point of water. The greatest depth ever measured by man is the Pacific Ocean, the lowest part of which is 31.610 feet below sea
A Mashona Village.
Away in sunny Africa a Ma- shona mother, who was the wife
A SEVERE NERVE TEST Experiences of An English Engiamor.
of the chief of the native village, level, or 60,000 feet (1 1/2 miles) sat inside the kraal with her baby lower than the summit of Mount in her arms, telling him that dusk | Everest: was falling over all Mashonaland, and that the cattle were being, driven back to the village to be milked, writes Rona Davidson) n "George Square Chronicle."
Jackals were whining loudly away across the waters of the dim Jagoon, and rows of ripe bearded mealles stood quivering under the pale light of the moon, which was low down in the sky,
The native men were coming home to their wives and children after a long day spent hunting the wild beasts of the thick forests. They lit a great circle of camp fires all round the kraal to keep away the fierce animals which would otherwise steal into the village and kill those left there, unprotected.
Tired out with their long day's hunting the warriors" returned, joyously and noisily chattering of heir latest adventures.
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By the ancients genius was two brotlem, one who fell in France and
a spirit of another who cank with a British sub interpreted
or evil which "presided Finally, through being so run down be over human beings and ruled.
one can realise his burden. good
Thus we have became a victim of influenza and past their destiny.
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It was when in woondition of collapse concerned now only with the latter. and a complete nervous wrack, he tried To the geniuses of evil we are in- Dr. Willing' Pink Pills. He had read debted for the many clever frauds about them, and he had also been re- commended to take them. In three of to-day. It is also the skill dis days, he explained to a reporter, he felt played by such wrong-doers that has them doing him good, and soon he was given currency to the oft-repeated feeling infinitely better.
platitude tllar had they put their The ex-German battleship Mr." Tomlinson, who is thirty-one'jcam | cleverness to honest purposes they "Goeben" has been refloated and old, then returned to the sou but mis would have made a creditable name. 17. – Telegraphia Addram (1) VICTORIA taken into Constantinople, under fortune dogged him, and he suffered more for themselves. Now there are two the Turkish Bag, for repairs. She ible in the death of his mother good reasons why this is not, and
his nerves broke down agaio. has been solved by Count Landf** I was afraid to cat; I cald, not look | cannot be, true,
Gooben Refloated.
and a British crew in a British ship, !at food, and my nerves got so bad that Ţ } One is that the mere possession the "Semper Paratus.”
could not rest at all I alwaya had † of skill and superlative cleverness, Count Landi, said a friend, terrible fears, and was afraid sometimes combined, it may be, with a few returns to England shortly, and of things. My nerves were so bad that sarily a passport to an honest live- to cross the road. I imagined all kinds! humdrum virtues, is not neces going to attempt, to get at the even the opasing of a door startled me lihood, even when the desire for
Lusitania": The liner went down took doctor's medicine but derived with bullion, important official no permanent benefit, sad I therefore such is present. In brief, a mat documents, and jewellery worth decided to try Dr. Williams. Pink Fills may not be able to obtain honest I housands of pounds.
a sin: In a few days I bogan to
In order to live No diver can work at the depth Pills, and soon my appetite returned, and honestly two things are requisite:
their good effect. I continued with the employment. the "Lusitania" lies, but the Count was able toga out without exparleading qualifications and opportunity. The has lovented a new diving suit the distressing symptoms, Dr. Willisice former are of little avail in the which should poable-divers-to get Eink Fille esplanaid, they seem to absence of the latter. I could chief to the hull of the Lualtanland give you now energy sục life. I have innumerable cases to prove my remain there for haltsan hour at amended them to several people, convention sp time while they cut their way into the bullion room, w
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