AN ISLAND TRAGEDY
CABLE TRANSPORTER BREAKS.
(Published in Tsio Times.)
(Received 30th November, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 29th November.
Tho Naples correspondent of "The Times" says that a remarkable tragedy has occurred in the Gulf of Napies, where the island Rock Gaiola, crowned with a solitary villa* owned by Dr. Grumbaeh, and connected with the mainland by a cable transporter erected in 1896. During a terrific storm Dr. Grumbaeh crossed safely, but when a patient, Baroness yon Parish was following the cable snapped, precipitating her into the seas, and she was drowned. Dr. Grumbaeh, blaming himself for his failuro to renew tho cable, committed suicide.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 11
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104AN ISLAND TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1926, Page 11
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