GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 4 July 1927, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PARIS TRAGEDY. PARIS, June 29. A fire, in a villa near Tours, rssult cd in an officer, his wife, two children, and a maid-servant, being burned to death. A quantity of clothing, soaked in petrol wa? found, suggesting that the officer sprinkled the room with petrol and sot it afire, then shot himself, leaving the family imprisoned amid tae flames. KILLED BY RAILWAY TRAIN CHICAGO, June 12. Frank Huchinson, a locomotive ongine'er, who had worked for 40 years without being involved in an accident, decided this week to take a holiday away from all railways. The holiday-maker therefore set out on a motor trip, but his car stalled on a railway track in front, of a train, and he and his wife were killed. A CAR’S MAD PLUNGE. LONDON, June 11. While it was crossing the Serpentine Bridge on the night of Sunday, 10th April, a saloon car driven by Alex Ncmko, crashed through 40in. iron railings and fell into 15ft. of water. Ncmko’s promptitude in flinging the door open saved his life and that of his fiancee, ’ Pearl Doveton. The car’s electric lights burned an hour under the water. Ncmko was to-day fined £lO for reck -less driving, and was disqualified from driving a car for two years.