Blackwater Mystery

With a number of sparse brown hackles hooked in his hat band, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, onetime (1916-21) Governor General of Canada, better known as the father-in-law of Adele Astaire, sat alone in a skiff on Blackwater River, Irish Free State, last week, fishing. Among the 186,000 acres in various parts of the British Isles that he owns is that part of the river, Lismore Castle high above it, and the fishing rights. It is reported that His Grace was enjoying himself mightily, listening to the whine of the reel, the swish of line and leader, when from the willows on the bank rose a strange figure wearing a mask.

"Is that the Duke's boat?" he shouted over the water.

"It is," said the Duke of Devonshire.

"Well then get off the river by eight o'clock or you'll be taken away!" He suddenly pulled a revolver from his pocket, fired two shots over the Duke's hat, and disappeared.

On the great estate of the de Beers diamond tycoons near Kimberley, Lord Hyde, 29, son & heir of the Governor General of South Africa, was out with a party of friends shooting springbok. Rushing forward into the bush he tripped over an anthill, dropped his gun, shot himself dead.

A famed socialite, Lord Hyde was married three years ago before the High Altar of Westminster Abbey, a privilege generally reserved for royalty. The Bishop of Kimberley said services for him on the railway platform, a special train carried his body to Cape Town en route to Britain.

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