PEER WELL ENOUGH TO FACE PROCEEDINGS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6551, 7 March 1928, Page 7

PEER WELL ENOUGH TO FACE PROCEEDINGS

NEWS PRODUCES SEIZURE, . [By Electric Cable-Copyright.] [Aust and,. N.Z. Cable Association.] PARIS, March 4. A professor of medicine, Lord Terrington fit to travel in an ambulance for extradition proceedings. The news, however produced another violent heart attack. BOULOGNE March 5. When officials arrived at the hospital Lord Terrington had another seizure Hq attempted to rise, buA fell back on the bed. Officials aided him In a second attempt to arise, but he was unable to dress, so he was wrapped in blankets and placed on a stretcher and taken in an ambulance to Doual. His wife and two gendarmes accompanied him. i Lord Terrington asked to take leave of the hospital cot. There were tears in his eyes while stroking it. Constant halts were made on the journey to apply restoratives. Lord Terrington said: “It is cruel to tell mo that I must go to Douai, dead or alive. I was pulled out of bed and fell on the floor.’’ Extradition proceedings will occupy some days.

The presence of Lord Terrington is required in England In connection with allegations concerning the estate of Sir Harold Reckitt over which Lord Terrington has power of attorney during Sir Harold Reckitt’s absence in India. Sir Harold Reckitt in giving evidence in November last, said that Lord Terrington, whom he had known from boyhood, admitted having drawn' £47,000. Later he found that more than a quarter of a million had gone. Mr Justice Rowlatt said that the power of attorney given Lord Terrington was wide, but it did not justify his filling his own pockets at Sir Harold Reckitt's expense. Many efforts have been made to get Lord Terrington back from the Continent to face proceedings: the medical evidence has always been adverse In the final issue.