DOCTORS ACCUSED

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 December 1926, Page 5

DOCTORS ACCUSED

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON. November 29. The trial is in progress of two Manchester doctors, named Arthur Holden and Frederick Webster, for the alleged manslaughter of a young married wdman, who died suddenly at Dr. Webster’s surgery. Police Inspector Blenkinsop, one of the chief Crown witnesses, was asked in the course of the trial why he had attempted to commit suicide after the case arose. Blenkinsop said that it was because he was disrated for not arresting the two doctors. Blenkinsop further admitted that he wrote on a slate the statements of the two doctors, but said that he could not explain who had since rubbed these out. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. LONDON, November 29. “The Times’s” Naples correspondent says: “A remarkable tragedy occurred in the Gulf of Naples where th.e island rock of “Gaiola” is crowned by a solitary villa, owned by Doctor Grumbach, and connected with the mainland by a cable transporter, which was erected in 1896. During a terrific storm Dr. Grumbach crossed the cable safely, but when his patient the Baroness Von Parish, was following, tlie cable snapped, precipitating her into the sea. and she was drowned. Dr Grumbach, blaming himself because of his failure to renew the cable, committed suicide.