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70-FOOT FALL TO DEATH

Climber Roped To Woman

WHILE roped to his

woman companion 'a young man climbing the 2,500ft, mountain, An Cioch, in the Coolins, Skye, fell 70ft, and was -killed.

He was Mr. Peter Reid, aged 27, of Dorking, and his companion was Dr. Barbara Raven, of the Ridge, Purley, Surrey.

Mr. Reid and Dr. Raven wore on their first climbing expedition together.

They were negotiating a bad corner when Mr. Reid fell and the rope broke.

He landed on a shelf, where he lay until Dr. Raven reached him.

FIVE MILES FOR HELP Having, made him as comfortable as possible Dr. Raven went five milea to bring help. On her return with

rescuers Mr. Reid was dead,

He was taken by a stretcher party! to Glen Brittle home, where the climbers were staying,

Dr. Raven said that when she got down to the ledge Mr. Reid told her have the reason for the fall must been that his hands got numb and he lost his grip.

"My friend was roped to me and was going on before," she said. "I

Pretty Rochelle Hudson, who eloped to Ensenada, Mexico, to wed writer Hal Thompson. The marriage was A surprise to friends in Hollywood. The young atar's mother knew nothing of their plans.

lost sight of him for a moment as he Told Girl He Had

went round a buttress and just then

I saw his body hurtie past and crash

on to a ledge below me,"

Mr. Edward Raven, former second

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secretary of the General Post Office, SYDNEY ROBERT MILNE is sald to a reporter that his daughter 32 and a convincing talker, He and Mr. Reid were both very good!

elimbers and had been in the district met two young women at a Sur- several days.

biton, Surrey, boarding-house,

Mr. Reid came from Georgetown, British Guiana. Ja,1-...

"My daughter and Mr. Reld. were and impressed one of them by telling not engaged. They were merely her he was a captain in the Indian climbing friends," he added.

Army with a fortune of £23,000 und a pension of £22 to £25 a week.

He also mentioned that when his mother died he would get a further £10,000, of which his bride would "Its mother and his two sisters have half. Then, going to East- are still in this country," sald Mr. Abourne, he met her father-and stole

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B. Drayton, the secretary of the

a £100 ring from the bedroom of Standard Life Assurance Company. Miss Alice Horanell,

by whom Mr. Reid was employed.

Next he called on a firm of auc- believe that they are at the tioneers and estate agents saying he moment travelling on holiday in Wales. They may not have heard was looking for a business. While "observing" a sultable business he the news yet, although I have wired stole the Whitsun takdings of £20. to their Surrey home."

From another estate agent he ob- Mr. Reld was one of the leading tained an "order to view" an occu- chess players in England.

pled house, then stole £4 from 1. About this time police circulated

Baby For Widow Of his description to estate agents, and

Thetis Officer

when he called on one he was ident- hed and arrested,

Recently.he...was _scnfented_at Mrs. Conway Lloyd, widow of London Sessions to three years' penal Licut. Commander T. C. Conway servitude. He pleaded guilty, and Lloyd. captuin of the submarine asked that 12 other cases be taken Trident, who lost his life In the into consideration.

Thetis disaster, recently gave birth He had eight previous convictions. to a daughter in a London nursing and was released from his last sen- home.

tence on March 10.

Strange Mission of A "Yard" Visitor

INQUIRIES were being made in London and Yorkshire.re- cently regarding the movements of a young man who, after flying in a private plane from Yorkshire to Brooklands, drove to Scotland Yard in a car and asked for an interview with Sir Philip Game, the Commissioner.

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According to messages from York-teachers of "moral rearmament." shire the young man presented him- Dressed in a pink negligee, she tlf to a Service aerodrome and de received Dr. Buchman recently, and clared it essential that he should get told him that his philosophy is such to Scotland Yard without delay. a great help and Inspiration to her After he had been entertained at that she wants to enrol comedian

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