Show ILLNESS IS FATAL EARL OF CARNARVON TOMB discoverer DIES AFTER FIGHT AGAINST INFECTION AND PNEUMONIA physicians assert death due to ac aident which might befall anyone who submits to climate calro cairo the earl or of carnarvon discoverer of the tomb of pharaoh tutankhamen died early thursday at a hotel here after a stubborn battle against blood poisoning and pneumonia following ollow follow ng the bite of an insect lady carnarvon who made a hurried trip to cairo from london by air and by sea was at tile the bedside A daughter and a son lord port cl chester iester were also present the fir first st word of the earls illness came on march 15 when it was wag said he be was suffering from an infection due to the insect bite which he had received at assouad ue ile was then brought to this city where physicians found that the throat and tonsils were affected although medical science will at tribute the earls death to such an accident as might befall anyone who entrusts himself to this climate there are thousands of natives who firmly believe that ther the vengeance lee of 0 the pharaohs Phara was visited upon the tha ex clorer who ho sought out the treasures of ancient egypt superstition has it that he who tampers with the tomb of an egyptian monarch is doomed by a curse of the ancients and consequently the earls allne illness 11 8 was pointed to as a fulfillment I 1 of 1 the old legent |