PEER’S SUICIDE.
DEATH OF LORD WESTBT7RY.
LONDON, Feb. 21
Lord Westbury, clad in pyjamas, fell seventy feet from the seventh floor of his flat in St. James’s Court at 7.30 o’clock this morning. Lord Westbury crashed through a glass canopy and knocked doitn a charwoman.
Lord Westbury, who had been in illhealth, requiring alleviation bv drugs, was attended by dav and night nurses. Ho sent one from the room just before the tragedy. He had been worried about the recent death of his heir; Hon. Richard Bothell, who was associated with Mr Carter in the excavations at Tutankhamen’s Tomb, from which a discussion arose regarding the curse of the Tombs of the Pharaohs.
At the inquest the Coroner returned a verdict that Lord Westbury committed suicide while of unsound mind. He, the Coroner, read a letter, stating: “I really cannot stand any more horrors.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 75, 24 February 1930, Page 7
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144PEER’S SUICIDE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 75, 24 February 1930, Page 7
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