FALL OVER 100FT. CUFF

Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1930, Page 6

FALL OVER 100FT. CUFF

DEATH OF LADY HALDON. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. .' London, May 2. A boy told the Brighton police on Thursday that he had seen a woman fall over a 100 ft cliff at Blackrock. Search revealed the body of an elderly welldressed woman whose identity was a mystery till to-day, when Lord Haldon identified her as his wife. He said he could not account for her going to Brighton. She had been suffering from sleeplessness. Lord and Lady Haldon had recently been living in furnished apartments in the London suburb of Brixton.

The Daily Express reveals that Lord Haldon had an adventurous career, including doing manual work on the Australian goldfields. When ho inherited the title there was not a penny piece attaching to it, and for some years Lord Haldon continued to be known: as Lawrence Balk. He went to Australia in the hope of rebuilding the family fortunes. He served in the Imperial Yeomanry in the South African war, and made money., on the goldfields. He then went to Sydney, where he qualified as a mining engineer. He rejoined the army during the World War. Lord and Lady Haldon had been living at Brixton in poor circumstances.