OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1925, Page 7

OBITUARY.

EUGEN SANDOW. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. Eugen Sandow, the professional strong man, is dead.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Eugen Sandow was born in Prussia ot Jewish parents. It has been said of him that he was a weak, neurotic boy, and that he became strong by constant training. It is also said of him that when he was 18 years of age he surprised the people of his native town by lifting the handles out of all "try-your-strength" machines in the vicinity. What is really true of him, however, is that he was an extremely shrewd business man, and, of course, remarkably muscular. He did stroner man stunts all over the world, including New Zealand, and the chief stunt was the exhibition of muaele control. "Mid noddings on" barring a tiger skin, Mr. Sandow slowly revolved on a pedestal, hisf muscles working at the command of his thoughts. During the war Sandow remained in London, although he did not persist with his profession of making people well and strontf by puttina: large muscles on small frame . all the available frames being in France- It is said that the author?tie* did not regard him as a dangerous alien, and that he was useful in many ways to the British authorities. Sandow had a remarkably harsh, strong, guttural voice and a commanding wav, extremely reminiscent of the method of the Prussian sergeant-major. Tn New Zealand he was able to arrange for municipal receptions. It is of interest that a man who taught , so many people how to be well should • die before he reached the age of 60 years. i 'PROFESSOR H. M. LEFROY. LONDON, October 14. . The death has occurred of Professor H. M. Lefroy, who for some years I had been experimenting at the Imperial College of Science with poison gasps for t the destruction of insect, pests- He wag ] found by his wife on Sunday in his experimenting room in a state of collapse. 3 apparently suffering from the effects of c poison gas. He was removed to a hospital in a serious condit ; on. , The professor was still unconscious i after three days and nisrhts. The doctors were handicapped through not knowing the properties of the gas with which he was experimenting when he was overcome. , , Professor I. fro. narrowly escaped death in March through inhaling an odourless Lewisite eras which was designed in lOlfi for the war. but was not i used—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) r Harold Maxwell Lefroy. M.A.. F.E.S., F _ P.. was Professor of Kntymolngrr at - the Imperial Colleee of Science and Tech- • nolocy nt Kensintrtnn. He had been Imperial Entymolo. st in India, and was hnnorarv curator of the insect house at ; London Zoo. Tn 1015-16 he was Imperial Siik Socialist in Tndia. He was temporary lieutenant-colonel in the Mesopotamia Field Force in the Great War.