DISTRICT COMMISSIONER ELECTROCUTED.
ACCIDENT IN EGYPT.
(BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.)
(Received August 11th, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 10.
The death is reported from Khartoum of Mr J. Stewart Moncrieff Paul, tho 24-year-old Assistant District Commissioner at Wan Dedani, 100 miles up the Nile from Khartoum. Mr Paul, who was the son of Brigadier-General Ernest Paul, a former Director of Works in the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Palestine Expeditionary Forces, was accidentally electrocuted while trying to rescue a prisoner working in the club's, garden from contact with an overhead electric cable.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 12 August 1932, Page 11
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