PHARAOHS’ CURSE

Northern Advocate, 18 November 1929, Page 5

PHARAOHS’ CURSE

DOOM OF DESECRATORS HON. R. BETHELL EXPIRES, TENTH ON THE LI,ST.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 8.56 a.m.) LONDON, November 14. The sudden death of the Hon. Richard Bothell has again revived discussion about the curse which many believe falls to all who disturb the tombs of the ancient Pharaohs. As secretary to Mr Howard Carter, the deceased earned out the work of excavating Tutankhamen's tomb. He wont cheerfully to bed at the Bath Club early yesterday, after a. game of cards, and later was found dead, lying across the bed. The "Daily Mail” points out that he is the tenth person concerned in Ihe work who has died more or less suddenly. The first was Lord Carnarvon, who began the work, and whose death followed a mosquito bite six weeks after he entered the tomb. Last year there were several mysterlons fires at the Hon. R. Bethell’s Manchester Square mansion, which is stocked with treasures brought from the Valley of the Kings. His daughter was named Nefertari, after Tutankhamen’s Queen,