THE
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OCTOBER TUESDAY,
25,
1938.
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 bride, Helen Mackworth, 24-years-old hunting woman, of 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 Mra, McClintock, of Dunmore House, Carrigans, preparatory to marrying William by special licence as he lay on a stretcher.
ON WEDDING-EVE,
HERSELF
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Acu
While Mrs. A. C. Lace-the only Woman competitor in the British
at Drivers' Club 200-miles Bretlands-was practising at 106 sea guli miles an hour rently a struck her on the helmet.
Her
car swerved, but she regained control and unhurt.
was Prince Trabongse, of Slam, escaped with shock when his car crashed at a bend, which he was taking too fast. To hit the bank and was trapped by his feet until he was thrown out.
and insisted. She loved him des- i perately."
Mr. Gatehouse said: "Neither my wife nor I intended to be present at the wedding. We thought our pre- sence would, perlups, be un em- barrassment, but we intended to visiti them after the marriage.”
and
Sald a friend of the family: "Every- body admired the sacrifice of this vivacious girl, full of heniti 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 child, and was very depressed that he had to face an empty lite and a
hollow marriage."
And so in the graveyard attached to the Carrigans Parish Church the
three victims were buried in a mors- lined oicings would have been
wedding
nt the time when the
at their height,
Dunmore House, set in well-wood- (1 grounds, was the scene of an in- quest which lasted until nearly mid- night. Across the hall those present Mies Mackworth had lived at Sid-w the dining-room ret for the re- years with her ception. A wedding cake stood on a mother and stepfather, Mr. Charles table. The presents were laid out. Gatehouse, and was one of the most popular members of local hunting and sporting circles.
But fate stepped in on the eve of the ceremony. And this is what hap-mouth for twelve pened:
Mrs.
McClintock, anguished, unbalanced because Willam re- cently fractured his spine and was partly paralysed, and fearing the marriage was doomed to un- happiness, turned a gun on him and killed him as he got in the sunil garden.
Then Mrs. McClintock went to tool-shed and shot herself. Mi Mackworth Fun 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." In her room among her trousseau she sat awhile, staring in # ice. Then she went to her flance's bedroom and shot herself with a rool rifle.
"SHE LOVED HIM"
She met Mr. McClintock two years ngo while he was stationed with the Royal Artillery at Topsham Barracks. Exeter, and their engagement was an- nounced in January, the marriage planned for June.
Then. In March, Mr.
Mc Clintock was thrown wiille riding at Sandown. He fractured his spine. Knowing he would never walk again, he asked bliss Mack- worth to break off the engage- ment. Sho refused.
One of his closest friends said:
In that room her marriage was to "Bill begged her to break off the en-
Colonel McClintock, in evidence, sald that his wife used to talk wildly at times.
"In the last three months ahe Kald she thought it would be a good thing if she and I were to commit suleide, having previous- ly killed William.
"I thought she was only raving and that it would pass off,"
After luncheon that day he went to his study, where his wife visited him. Their son was in the garden.
"My wife left the study shortly afterwards he said. "and I then heard two shots. I did not attach muchi
importance to them, as thought it was the usual custom for my son's financer to shoot pigeons.
"IF WILLIAM DIES-"
"I had not seen her since the morn-
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Seligman is back in London.
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 as an amateur glaciologist.
They lived at an altitude of 11,300 feet and a temperature several degrees below freezing, but, excopt for a few days of lassitude at the end of their stay, they kept remarkably fit.
For The Hatless
Two coloured scarves hung in the porch of the parish church at Thames Ditton, Surrey, recently. Above
The ice laboratory was a new idea then was this notice: "For the use of and its construction splendid women who require a headdress." achievement. A tunnel was cut into They had been placed there by the Ice wall, and a large cave the vicar, the Itev, G. H. Hussell, for hollowed out. Solid ice blocks were hatless women wishing to pray in the
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"We were able to keep our speci-
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"NAGCING" COLD Towards the end the scientists were able to work for 3 hours at
me in the laboratory. They wore as many 83 three coats and three caps, and tied eneks stuffed with straw round their feet.
"It was a nagging rather than an Intense cold, and a feat of endurance rather than of courage," Mr. Sell-
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house and a voice saying, 'Miss Mack-man worth has killed herself.""
A murse stated that Miss Mack- worth and said that if William died she would end her own life.
"When I was trying to console her in the bedroom she smiled sadly and said, will never be able to live without him.
But real courage was required for the collection of specimens. More than 50 descents were made into crevasses, some of them 1901. below the surface of the glacier. This part of the work was extremely danger- ous. The dread of every climber in
be lost in a crevasse.
"I went to look for Mrs. McClin-to lock-and discovered ber body, in some rushes near the toolshed.
Specimens were brought to the surface in thermos bottles contain-
"Then I heard our other nurseing a freezing mixture.
FASTER SKI?
shouting from the house, and dis- covered that Miss Muckworth had shot herself in the head with a .22
Due to the lee laboratory, remark- rifle. The gun was one which she able seientific results were achieved, and Mrs. McClintock had often used but it will take at least a year to at target practice."
n faster ski.
A verdict of Murder and Sulcide classify them. An incidental prac against Mrs. McClintock and of Sui-tical result may be the designing of cide concerning Miss Mackworth was returned.
Mr. Seligman's interest in Lleut-Col. R. McClintock, who is ginciology grew out of his love of 60, is the son of the late Col. W. Mc- |rki-ing and mountaineering. He is a
of Clintock, R.A. Formerly the member of the Alpine Club and Royal Engineers, he served in the former president of the Ski Club of Niger Expeditionary Force, the South | Great Britain. African War, in which he was award-
ed the D.S.0., and in East Africa in
the Great war.
His entire time is now given to the study of snow and ice.
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