SHOOTING TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 21835, 26 September 1934, Page 9

SHOOTING TRAGEDY

MARQUIS OF WATERFORD KILLED FAMOUS CURSE RECALLED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 25. , The Marquess of Waterford was kiHai 1 ) in a shooting accident. He left hist, home at Portlaw alone at daybreak to shoot rabbits, and it is impossible to say how the accident happened. The famous Waterford curse doomed seven heads of the Beresford family to untimely deaths. The sixth marquess, who was accidentally drowned in 1911, was the seventh head, and people then declared that the curse would bo lifted. [The Marquess of Waterford was thirty-three years of age. He was married in 1930, and had one son. His heir is the Earl of Tyrone.] SLIPPED ON FLOOR OF GUN ROOM VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. LONDON, September 25. {Received September 26, at 10.30 a.m.) It is presumed that the Marquess of Waterford slipped on the stone floor of the gun room, thus discharging his rifle. At the inquest a doctor gave evidence that the position of the wound proved that the marquess could not have touched the trigger. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.