THE SEVENOAKS MURDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2301, 21 September 1908, Page 3

THE SEVENOAKS MURDER.

pif.rj ACCUSATION AGAINST HUSBAND. ' A REGRETFUL SUICIDE. /H*? tmrzD Pb:uss Association. Coptbight pf!:/ | LONDON, Sept. 13. jWh , Major-General Luard ,has. been. V found deao on the railway line a - m West Farlelgb. General Luard, «ner spending the night 'at Darnam if as the guest of Colonel V. arde, her of the House of Commons, threw k : .y himself under a train beiore break- . fast, leavin g letters declaring that he >. 1 ’ w-*was-unable longer to bear the aw,ul ; -- " 'accusation that he killed his.wnte. -ev- . eral newspipers had 'hinted at tni» suspicion owing to the absence or 1 .' clues. 1 • fe TERRIBLE INSINUATIONS. f ' LUARD’S PATHETIC POSITION. /• \ ■*United Pees 3 Association. Coptbight f j); S- '(Received Sept. 20, 4.20 p.m.) ■ - • . London, Sept. id. & Major-General Luard was the reioipient of many letters containing terrible insinuations. He wrote to | j Colonel AVarde denouncing his. traducers in- heart-broken terms. C His only! surviving son lands at Southampton from South Africa to- : ; Major-General Luard complained 11 bitterly of the scandalous nature or the'questions addressed to hirn attiie ;, i inguest. He receiver! dozens or an--1.-,, | , onymous letters directly accusing h im. 'of the murder. His. friends advised ' him to treat them with contempt, but his last letter stated that he was V 1 . sick of the scandalous lying reports, ill -He wrote, ,; I cannot face my .son, and I have decided to end my life. ' '■pi The deceased left several letters i and telegrams to Colonel AVarde, nig i; )f ‘ housekeeper, and others, indicating Jfc his intention to commit suicide, and directing that his hotly he removes to Burham Court. E;D .' The engine-driver, eeeing him jump in front of the train, vainly tried to § 1 'stop. * ‘, Intense public sympathy for the jfjO deceased gentleman is now evinced. A SAD HOME-COMING. p;.:7z THE INQUEST. IMi United Pbess Association, Copyright SC (Received Sept. 21, 12.40 a.mj I V LONDON, Eept. 20. HI - Colonel Warde went to Soiithampffe.f ton and broke the news to Capua.in Luard, who later attended the \n~ t 1 guest on his father’s body. A yerdirt I ;- of suicide while temporarily insane 'f.‘ t i wins returtned.