FATAL CHILL.
PREMONITION OF DEATH. (bt CABLE—press ASSOCIATION —COPmtGBT.) (AUSTRALIAN AKU N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received March 7th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. The death is announced of the Bev. Alexander Carlisle, Chaplain and Lecturer on Political Science of the University College, Oxford. The Rev. Carlisle, after a visit to the ex-Kaiser at Doorn in November caught a chill swimming in the Serpentine, in which he had bathed winter and summer for twelve years. He Immediately arranged everything for his own funeral, except the date. He visited a crematorium, paid the fees in advance, and interviewed an organist whom he instructed to play the "Merry Widow," waltz after the service which he desired to be cheerful with no mourning.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18634, 8 March 1926, Page 9
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