BANKRUPT PEER’S FAREWELL TO HIS CAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 296, 6 March 1928, Page 9

BANKRUPT PEER’S FAREWELL TO HIS CAT

JOURNEY ON STRETCHER EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 11.45 a.m. BOULOGNE, Mon. Y\ T HEN the officials arrived at ** the hospital to take Lord Terrington to Douai, the bankrupt peer had another seizure. He attempted to rise, but fell back on the bed. The officials aided his second attempt. He was unable to dress, so he was wrapped in blankets, placed on a stretcher and carried in an ambulance to Douai. His wife and two gendarmes accompanied him. Lord Terrington asked to be allowed to take leave of the hospital cat, and tears appeared in his eyes while he was stroking it. Constant halts were made on the journey to apply restoratives. During the trip Lord Terrington said: “It is cruel to tell me I must go to Douai, dead or alive. I was pulled out of bed and fell to the floor.” The extradition proceedings will occupy some days.—A. and N.Z. Lord Terrington, a London solicitor, was travelling on the Continent when his creditors took proceedings in the Bankruptcy Court to recover debts amounting to £420,000. An extradition order was made out against him, and he was arrested in Boulogne on March 19. Later, owing to heart trouble, he was taken to the local hospital, and the French authorities informed the British Government that he could not be moved without seriously endangering his health.