WIDOW'S SAD HOME-COMING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

WIDOW'S SAD HOME-COMING

LONG AND ANXIOUS JOURNEY RETURN WITH HUSBAND'S ASHES It has fallen to the lot of few mothers to undergo the poignant experience- of Mrs. A. Mallalieu, widow of Alderman F. W. Mallalieu, cotton manufacturer, of Delph, near Oldham, Lancashire, -who recently returned to England from Capo* town on the TJnion-Cas'ulo liner Balmoral Castle. Mrs. Mallalieu travelled altogether 15,000 miles, during which she attended the trial of a son accused of murder at Maritzburg, South Africa, and then lost her husband by death. When their 21-vear-old son, Mr. Richard Louis Mallalieu, was accused of the murder of a taxi-cab proprietor at Marburg in September, Mr. and Mrs. Mallalieu sailed for Capetown with their son, Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had come from the United States. " It has been a terribly sad trip," said Mrs. Mallalieu. "We went out under the shadow of the ordeal our son Richard was facing, and though that shadow was happily cleared away the unexpected death 'of my husband came as a tremendous shock. My great consolation is that he lived to see his faith in our son's innocence vindicated." Throughout the trial in March Mr. and Mrs. Mallalieu remained in court near their son. After the trial Mr. Mallalieu contracted cerebral malaria, from which he died. The body was cremated and the ashes were taken home by the widow for burial at Delph. Mrs. Mallalieu stated that her husband went out in the best of health and remained well until he went to Zululand, where he contracted the illness from which he died. She said she uid not know what her son Richard's plans were, but she hoped and believed he would sioon be coming home.