The Archive · 1935

Family of Tobacco King in Smash

London, Sept. 1.

Major Bernard Wills, the tobacco magnate, lost two of his four chile Jdren early this morning as the result Jof a motoring accident near Biggleswade, in Bedfordshire, when the car lin which the latter were returning {from a holiday In Scotland crashed. into a stationary lorry, Christopher Wills, who was driving the car, sustained " only "slight me juries, but his brother Gerald, aged 16, was Killed instantaneously,' while his sister Joan, aged 18, died of her injuries in hospital, The fourth member of the party, Sylvia, is in a serious condition—Reuter.

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