SIR GUY STANDING
DEATH FROM SPIDER BITE. (by CABLE —PEES? ABSN. —CO?YRIGHT.I ' HOLLYWOOD, February 24. Sir Guy Standing died from a heart attack while chatting to an employee in the offices of a motor agency. Friends have traced his death indirectly to the bite of a “black widow’’ spider two years ago, during the filming of “Lives of a Bengal Lancer.’’ Appare.ily Sir Guy Standing recovered, but recently he complained of pains in his legs. He refused medical care, and it is believed that the poison affected his heart.
Born in 1873, Sir Guy Standing was married in 190 S. He had retired from the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was made a C.B.E. in 1918, and K.B.E. in the following year. He served throughout the Great War, and was a member of the British War Mission to the United States, in 191 S.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1937, Page 7
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