THE WHITSTABLE TRAGEDY
SMITH’S ANTECEDENTS. London, November 28. The “Sunday Express” states that the grandfather of Alfonso Francis Austin Smith, whose trial on the charge of murdering John Adam Tytler Derham and acquittal caused a sensation in Maidstone, was Sir Frank Smith, who was associated in business in Canada with Lord Strathcona. When Alfonso Smith came of age he inherited £llO,OOO, He owned racehorses and a luxurious steam yacht, and gave large parties. His widowed mother, who had an income of £lO,OOO, died while Smith was serving in the trenches in France. Fie first married Ruth Wynne, the daughter of a former Postmaster-General of the United States. The marriage was dissolved, and he then married his present wife, a wartime typist, whom he met in a lawyer’s office.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 9
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128THE WHITSTABLE TRAGEDY Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 9
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