MANSION HOUSE TRAGEDY

Northern Advocate, 22 October 1927, Page 9

MANSION HOUSE TRAGEDY

STRANGE STORY TOLD MOTHER’S SACRIFICIAL LOVE. COULD HAVE SAVED HERSELF. (United Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received 1) a.m.) LONDON, October 20, At the inquest concerning the deaths of Major Bazley-White, his wife and child and a nurse, who wore incinerated in a tire at the Major’s home, Waterbury Hall, near Maidstone, the strange story w r as told that all those who rushed to the scone thought the mansion was vacated. The three servants wdio escaped gai v c evidence that they were awakened by Mrs Bazley-White rushing along the passage, agitatedly shouting “Fire!” They heard her rush through the flames to the nursery. One servant, noticing that the car had gone from the garage, concluded that the family had also escaped, Mrs Bazley-White could certainly have escaped, as apparently she was the first to detect the blaze. The others throw stones and broke the windows of Major Bazley-White’s bedroom, which was at the other end from that of his wife, but there was no response. The evidence of o'thers arriving on the scene subsequently was to the effect that they were told the house was empty, A taxi-driver heard a groan while climbing outside a window, and this was the first indication that anybody was inside. The verdict was that the deaths were due to burning, the cause of the fire being unknown.—A. and N.Z,