THE LONDON TRAGEDY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 16, 21 January 1919, Page 3

THE LONDON TRAGEDY.

A SORROWS. A typiste in a Ministerfhl office in Wellington was formerly secretary to Sir James Roberts, Bart, (father of Mrs Rutherford, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Rutherford, concerned in the recent shooting case in London), says the Post. “This gentleman,” says his late secretary, “is a well-known figure in commercial* and political circles in the Old , Country. He is a self-educated and self-made man, who began life as a mill-boy, and how owns the town of Saltalre (one of Yorkshire’s ‘model villages’), with two or three country seats of which the most notable one is the ancestral home of the Earls of Perth, at Strathmore, Scotland, Sir James, although so successful and powerful in business and public life, has had a tragic career. His eldest son unexpectedly developed a fatal disease and died in South Africa, where his father had bought an estate for him, in the hop© of his recovery. His next eldest son was cut down in the prime of life by the recurrence of malarial fever, contracted during a tour through South America in his youth. His youngest son met with a tragic death at Portrush in Ireland during a holiday there. Now comes the tragedy connected with his daughter, Mrs Rutherford, who was always a lively and,popular girl.”