MOTHER SHOOTS SON
BRIDE KILLS
COLONEL'S WIFE
Could Not See Him Marry on Stretcher
HUNTING-GIRL FIANCEE
"LOVED HIM MADLY"
A bride-to-be in her wedding gown, her fiance, and his mother were recently buried together in the village churchyard of Carri- gans, County Donegal.
That is the outcome of an amazing drama of thwarted love, murder, and suicide, which led to the deaths of the
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, ` TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938.
ON WEDDING-EVE,
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While Mrs. A. C. Lacette nuly woman competitor in the British Drivers Clib 200-mlles race al Brooklands-was practising at 100 mile an hour really a sea yuli struck her on the helmet.
lier car swerved, but shu regained control and was unhurt.
Prince Birabongse, of Slam, escaped with shock when his car crashed at a bend, which he was taking too fast. He hit the bank and was trapped by his feet until he was thrown out.
and insisted, She loved him des- perately."
Mr. Gaichouse said: "Neither my wife nor I intended to be present t the wedding. We thought our pre- sence would, perhaps, be an barrassment, but we intended to visit them after the marriage."
em-
Said a friend of the family: "Every- body admired the sacrifice of this!
and vivacious girl, full of health vigour, who was eager to link her life with her paralysed lover.
"But Mrs. McClintock felt keenly for her son, for he was her only
he had to face un emply life and a hollow marriage."
bride, Helen Mackworth, 24-years-old hunting woman, of child, and was very deprested that Sidmouth, Devon; William George McClintock, aged 24, former R.A. lieutenant and crippled point-to-point rider, and his mother, Mrs. Margaret Jennie McClintock, aged 60.
Miss Mackworth had been staying for a month with her fiance's father and mother, Col. R. L. and Mrs. McClintock, of Dunmore House, Carrigans, preparatory to marrying William by special licence as he lay on a stretcher,
But fate stepped in on the eve of the ceremony. And this is what hap-mouth for twelve pened:
Mrs. McClintock, anguished, unbalanced breause William re- cently fractured his spine and was partly paralysed, and fearing the marriage was doomed to un happiness,
turned a gun on hilm and killed him as he sat in the sunlit garden.
Then Mrs. McClintock went to a tool-shed and shot herself.
Mil Mackworth ran to the garden, saw her lover dead; to a nurse in the house she said, "I do not know how I will live without him."
n." In her room among her trousseau she sut awhile, staring in space. Then she went to her flance's bedroom and shot herself with a rook rifle.
Miss Mackworth had lived at Sld- years with her mother and stepfather, Mr. Charles Gatehouse, and was one of the most) popular members of local hunting and sporting circles.
"SHE LOVED HIM"
She met Mr. McClintock two years; ago while he was stationed with the Royal Artillery at Topsham Barrocks, Exeter, and their engagement was an- nounced in January. the marriage planned for June.
Then,
March, Mr. Mo Cilnlock was thrown while riding at SandowIL. He fractured his spine. Knowing he would never walk again, be asked Miss Mack- worth to break off the engago- ment. She refused.
One of his closest friends said:
In that room her marriage was. to "Bill begged her to break off the en-
And so in the Kraveyard attached; to the Carrigans Parish Church the three victims were buried in a mass- lined
grave at the time when the wedding rejoicings would have been at their height.
Dunmore House, set in well-wood- ed grounds, was the scene of an in- quest which lasted until nearly mid- night. Across the hall those present saw the dining-room set for the re- ception. A wedding cake stood on a table. The presents were laid out.
Colonel McClintock, In evidence, said that his wife used to talk wildly at times.
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"In the last three months she she thought it would be a good thing if she and I were to commit suicide, having previous- ly killed William. "thought
ight she was only raving and that it would pass off."
to
After luncheon that day he went study, where his wife visited
Him.
Their son was in the garden.
"My wife left the study shorty afterwards." he weld, "and J Mien heard two shots. I did not uttach mitch
importance to them, as thought it was the usual custom for my son's financee to shoot pigeons. "IF WILLIAM DIES-
"I had not seen her since the morn-
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He led the first British expedition devoted exclusive- ly to glaciological study to the Aletsch last April. It com- prised a crystallographer, geographer, two physicists and Mr. Seligman, modestly self-described glaciologist.
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They lived at an altitude of 11,300 feet and a temperature several degrees below freezing, but, except for a few days of lassitude at the end of their stay, they kept remarkably porch of the parish church at Thames Ditton, Surrey, recently. Above
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house and a voice saying, 'Miss Mack-mun worth has killed herself.""
A nurse stated that Miss Mack- worth had said that if William died she would end her own life.
"When I was trying to console the smiled her in the bedroom Badly and said, I will never be able to live without him.
"I went to look for Mrs. McClin- tock-and discovered her body. In some rushes near the toolshed,
"Then I heard our other nurse and dis- shouting from the house, covered that Miss Mackworth had shot herself in the head with a 22
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But real courage was required for of specimens. More the collection than 50 descents were made crevasses, some of them 100ft, below the surface of the glacier. This part of the work was extremely dunger- ous. The dread of every climber la
to be lost in a crevasse."
Specimens were brought to the surface in thermos bottles contain- ing a freezing mixture.
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Due to the Ice laboratory, remark- rifle. The gun was one which she able scientific results were achieved, und Mrs. McClintock had often used but it will take at least a year to at target practice.".
A verdict of Murder and Suicide classify them. An incidental prac against Mrs. McClintock and of Sui-ical result may be the designing of
a faster ski elde concerning Miss Mackworth was returned.
Mr. Seligman's Interest In Lieut.-Col. R. McClintock, who_is | glaciology grew out of his love ef |00, is the son of the late Col. W. Mc-aki-ing and mountaineering. He la a
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