UNFOUNDED REPORT

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 676, 31 October 1933, Page 3

UNFOUNDED REPORT

fear for duke's son LORD EDWARD MiONTAGU THOUGHT TO BE l M.URDERED. SAFE AND SOUND IN VICTORIA. Alarmist reports concerning Lord Edward M'ontaigu, second son of the Duke of Manchester*, have been discredited by the news that he is safe and sound at his home in Victoria, British Columibia. Lord Edward was stated t0 have "disappeared" from Los Angeles, and the mystery gave rise to the fear that he had been kidnapped and inurdered. Mr.- Frederick Kingerley, a friend of Lord Edward at Los Angeles, stated reeently that the young nohleman . intended to join ,the French Foreign Legion, and was on the high seas ibound for Morocco. When Lord Edward wa^ located at Victoria he declared, "I have no intention of joining the Foreign Legion or embarking on any other adventure." The mystery appears to have an'sen when Viscount Mandeville and Lady Millicent Montaigu, the Duke of Manchester's daughter and elder son, "dropped in" at Los Angeles and called at a local hotel to look for their ■brother. When it became known that they had not found him the Los Angeles police telegraphed news of tre supposed disappearance to the New York police. "Absurd Reports." The Duke of Manchester) got in touch with Lord Edward's wife at Edmonton when the story of his son's "disappearance" reached him. He afterwards stated that the reports of murder and kidnapping were "absurd." He added: "Lady Edward Montagu cannot undtrstand these reports about her husiband's disappearance. She tells me that her husband has gone to their home in British Columbia. He was staying in Los Angeles, but left there to attend to some business. Three days ago she had a letter from him from Victoria saying that he was quite well. She is to join her husband shortly." Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, although' only 27, has had an adventurous life. His wife was formerly Miss Norah Potter, daughter of Mr. Albert Potter, of Edmonton, Canada. Last year he was a passenger in the yacht Karma, whose owner, Captain Walter Wariderwe.l, was murdered hy being shot in the back while the iboat was lying at Long Beacb, California. He was on board when the shooting occurred, and, with other memibers of the crew, was questioned by the police. "I have an unholy zest for adventure," Lord Edward said in the course of the investigation. "I wish to write, and have been itravellipg now for about four years, absorbing colour for & romance. This is the first time I have met with anything serious." A young Welsh sailor was put on trial for the murder of Captain Wand irwell, but he was acquitted, and the crime has remained unsolved since. Romantic Marriage. Last December Lord Edward was arrested at Long Beach on an allegation that he had overstayed his visitors permit to the United States. He was able to prove the Federal authorities wrong. Lord Edward was edueated at Harrow, and went to Canada to leaim farming at thd model ranch of Lord and Lady Rodney, near Edmonton. Among his fellow pupils on the farm were the -Hon. John Stanley, nephew of Lord Derby, and Prince Charles Philippe d'Orleans, descendant of the kings of France. But Lord Edward did not find farming as congenial as he had hoped. In his own words, it was "all work and no play." He left for England, but on reaching Winnipeg received fromi his mother a cable which sent him back to Alberta. It was 01^ returning. to Edmonton, where he secured a business post, that he met Miss Norah Potter, his future wife. Miss Potter's father was the manager of the company by whom Lord Edward was employed. The couple were married in the First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton, in 1929, and a son was iborn to them in the following year. The child's name is Roderick Edward Drogo Montagu.