A LONDON TRAGEDY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 January 1919, Page 5

A LONDON TRAGEDY

ONE ' MEDICAL OFFICER' SHOOTS •■■'■■-.. , ANOTHER. '

: London, January 14. Major Miles-Charles Sbton, of the Australian Medical Corps, was dead at the house of his cousin, Sir Malcolm Seton, ■in Holland Park. / Lieutenant-Colonel N. C. Rutherford, a•■ Territorial medical officer, was arrested. Rutherford''was- charged at the West London Police .Court with murder, arid-was remanded till January 22. ' .- .-..--., ■:' • , It is understood that the accused, who had just arrived from the front, sought an interview' with the deceased: The interview lasted ten minutes and terminated with revolver shots.— Aus.-N.Z.- Cable Assn. "•-■-..

(Reo. January 17, 0.10 a.m.)

London, January 15. Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford and Major "Seton became acquainted on active service. Both were prominent medical men. Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford is an authority on anatomy and human embryology. He was lately Assistant Commissioner of . Medical Services. _ . Major Seton was attached to Harefield Hospital.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. N [The..late'.- Major Seton was a resident of Melbourne, where he acted as honorary. anaesthetist at the" Alfred Hospital. He served in tho' South African War. "Who's Who" gives a note on Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel John Crawford Rutherford, R.A.M.C, D.5.0., who also served' in South Africa. He was mentioned- in dispatches and received the D.S.O. for his, services in the European War'. Sir Malcolm Seton-is Secretary to the Judicial and Public Department of the India Office.]