SIR GEORGE LEWIS
DEATH IN SWITZERLAND SUICIDE DISCOUNTED, Press Association—By '.telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, August 17. (Received August IS, at 11. oil a.in.) Tho examining magistrate at Montreux, in his report, discounts the hypothesis that Sir George Lewis committed suicide, and suggests that ho was running to catch the train, for which he had a ticket in his pocket, when ho slipped and fell on the rails. [A message from Geneva on August 10 stated that Sir George Lewis, a prominent London solicitor. was knocked down by a railway train, and instantly killed. He was recuperating from neurasthenia, and alter watching a game of tennis he climbed the railings of the hotel and walked on to the line at the moment that the Simplon express was passing at sixty miles an hour.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19638, 18 August 1927, Page 6
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