FELL OVER CLIFF

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 963, 5 May 1930, Page 9

FELL OVER CLIFF

ENGLISH PEERESS'S TRAGIC DEATH SUFFERED FROM INSOMNIA Reed. 12.40 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. A boy told the Brightou police on Thursday that he had seen a woman fall over a cliff 100 ft high at Blackrock. A search revealed the body of an elderly, well-dressed woman, whose identity was not established until today, when Lord Haldon ident tiled her as his wife. Lord Haldon said he could not account for her going to Brighton. She had been suffering from sleeplessness. The Haldons had recently been living in furnished apartments in the London suburb of Brixton. The “Daily Express” reveals that Lord Haldon has had an adventurous career, including manual work ou the Australian goldfields. When he inherited not a penny piece attaching to the title for some years Lord Haldon continued to be known as Lawrence Palk. He went to Australia in the hope of rebuilding the family fortunes, after he had served In the Imperial Yeomanry In the South African War. When he made some money on the goldfields he went to Sydney and qualified as a mining engineer, and rejoined the Army in the World War.