Dr John Ferguson, of Manchester Square, London, was found by his wife lyinr; dead ou the floor of his consulting room. His death was due to heart failure caused by the heat. Whilst feeding a. strav pigeon ou the roof of the residence of the French Consul, Liverpool, Marguerite Lowden. 20, a domestic servant, fell through a akyliht and was hilled. A dancing competition, to the strains of Leo Fall’s “ Last Waltz,” at the popular seaside resort of Heringadorf, in Germany, was interrupted \by tragedy. Glurgin Hliescu, the gipsv conductor of the orchestra,’ while watching the dancers, in which his beautiful young wife was partnered by the 17-ycar-old aon of his first marriage, saw his son kissintr his stepmother’s bare shoulder. Hliescu threw down his violin, and, drawing a revolver, fired several shots in rapid succession at the boy, who foil, severely wounded. The woman escaped in jurv. The hoy was removed in a dying condition to the hospital. The father wao arrested.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18995, 17 October 1923, Page 8
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163Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 18995, 17 October 1923, Page 8
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