Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — DEATH IN ASQUITH ROMANCE [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN ASQUITH ROMANCE

Injury Earl's Son Received In Auto Accident Proves Fatal. London, Dec. IT.—Mias Violet Asquith, daughter of the prime minister and, with her stepmother, the object of William Watson's recent attack in the poem “The Woman With the See pent’s Tongue," is grief-stricken over the death of Archibald Gordon, second son of the Earl of Aberdeen. He was injured in an automobile accident on Nov. 28. It has been learned that his engage ment to Miss Asquith was to have been announced on that date. Miss Asquith was almost constantly at his bedside.