A BLACK FAMED MANSION.
CURSE ON HOUSE IS VISITED ON" CHHjDREN. LONDON, July 19. The shadow of fate hangs over the house of G. C. B. Long, M.P. for Southsea and owner of one of the largest Drewcries m the country. "I defy superstition aud the fates and will make my home at Down End," said I Mr Long five years ago, when warned 1 that there was no luck about a house m which blood had once been shed. Three months liad passed when- his youngest child, *a girl of eight, Avas found dying on the floor of the kitchen. A pan of boiling Avater had) fallen over her. Lionel Long, the second son, Avhile examining, a rifle, accidentally shot- and killed his sister. A Boer bullet at tlie battle of Graspan ended his sorrow. There remained but one son, Percy Long, j»'ho a few days ago Avas serving Avith the Second Dragoon Guards m South Africa. It Avas with a resigned despair that tlie father m England read the telegram that told him that his only remaining child had been shot while cleaning a revolver. Yet Mr Long insists that he will' remain m the plate until -the 9*4*fße has, : run* itself -.out, _ .- f ;v.;fc ■-;•* •*'"'".*:), , ■•-.,- .-.- ;•■.■,. -. .. •• H - i.i" i'-r-' •' "i . —
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10137, 25 August 1904, Page 2
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211A BLACK FAMED MANSION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10137, 25 August 1904, Page 2
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