VIOLENT QUARREL.

Western Star, 14 October 1938, Page 3

VIOLENT QUARREL.

PROFESSOR AND WIFE,

MAN DISAPPEARS OVERBOARD.

One of tho lofty decks of the French Unci' Normandie was the scene of an amazing drama at midnight when tho ship was not far distant from iNew Jfork. Intervening in a violent quarrel between husband and wife, a Bailor saved tho woman from being thrown overboard.

'iiageuv, however, followed swiftly for the husband was missed from' the ship a few moments later in circumstances which left no doubt that ho had plunged into the sea. GRIPPED BY THROAT. The man who vanished was Robert Duncan, aged 35, professor of political science at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. He and his wife went up on the boat deck, presumably to take a midnight stroll, just before the seaman, Joseph Bronard, heard a scream. Running up he found Professor Duncan gripping his wife by the throat and knocking her head against the rail. He wrenched the woman, who by tins time had fainted, from her husband's grasp. While he was tending her, Professor Duncan disappeared into the darkness between two lifeboats. Mrs Duncan's first words when she revived wdre: '"Bqn't mind me. Geo my husband. I'm afraid he will try to commit suicide.'.

"GET MY HUSBAND." A doctor who examined her found her injuries so serious that an, operation had to be performed to gave her life. As she, went under the ether, she murmured, "Get my husband.' Meanwhile, the loud speaker system was. calling Professor Duncan's name over and over again throughout the ship without result. (Jailors peered over the boat deck rat above the sea, and searchlights were trained on the water, but there was no sign of tho missing man. The purser reported when the wormiuidie docked at New York that U» professor must have jumped overboard.