FIRE TRAGEDY SEQUEL

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1922, Page 5

FIRE TRAGEDY SEQUEL

DEMONSTRATION AGAINST WIDOWER

HISSED AND ABUSED BY CROWD,

(»HITI» MISS ASSMIATItN.—CePTRIIHT.) LONDON, 24th March. An extraordinary demonstration took place at Norwich at the funeral of Mrs. George and her son and daughter. Thousands gathered to witness the funeral, though the time and place were kept secret. When the husband, pallid and trembling,l left the mourning coach, he.was met by a storm of hissing, booing, and opprobrious epithets. When he left the cemetery the crowd, which was; largely composed of women, continued 1 hooting vigorously.

£A widespread newspaper scheme in England, initiated as a New Year advertising device, provided for insurances against sickness, fire, street, railway and motoring accidents. A fire recently broke' out in the house of Frederick George, a Norwich greengrocer, in which George's wife, son, and daughter were burned to death, but George escaped. The jury at the inquest added a rider that George should have made a greater attempt to save his family. The coroner afterwards again referred to the case. He said : "George insured his wife and family in the newspaper scheme for £250, which was promptly paid. He •must have immediately written to the newspaper. If I had known of this at the time of' the inquest the verdict might haye been different, "Under the circumstances it looks like a serious case against George. I have communicated with the police."] ' ' ■ .