STRANGE STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 95, 21 April 1906, Page 13

STRANGE STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

P.A RA r.TSEB BY ELECTRICITT, A Chicago jtiry liaa a-sraxded a ten-year-ojd blind glri £5000 damages for injuries sustained by reeiving an electric; shook. She was paralysed while walking near an electric wire owned bj the Union Traction Com--pany. Tlie jnry accepted tlie tiieory adTfauced In support oi tbe girl's ease thac tT is not necessary to couch a highly-charged wire to receive a shock. It was srated that a shock might he received by a person who was four feet away from a liTe wirf». DYNAMITE OUTEAGE IN" NEW YORK. The foundry of Messrs Karlti-n Brothers in New York was partly destroyed by dynamire early on Tuesday, after the watchman had been lured away by :l telephone message telling , him zha.t his mother was dying , - The explosion was so severe that people I it ins near *oe foundry taought nad Seea an t»arthquaie. The owners of the foundry recently decided to enapiiiy on'.y

non-union meu. and various arrempts have been made to destroy the buildings. A great disaster waa oaiy prevented by th.c aero'c work ef the iiremen. There waa a tank holding half a million gallons of kerosene on she opposite- side of the street to rhe foundry, and the nre which followed the explosion threatened, to spread to it^ A MAX WHO FEEL FAI?«. A labourer named Joseph. Lipnitz has recovered a large sum ;tt> damages from rhe New York Haven and Halifax Railway Company under remarkable circumstances. His

claim was in respect of injury sustained in a collision, affecting his spine, and rendering him insensible to pain. In support of this contention, a Brooklyn court permitted aim to be subjected to a strange ordeal in die witnesa-bos. A surgeon applied a whitehot cautery to rhe plaintiff" s barf arm and body, holding it there nutii rh<* odour of burning ttesh filled the jury 5 nostril*. Lipnitz did not anish, due smiled cueerfuily.

This produced such an en*ecr chat the company withdrew their plea thac he was malingering. Seared but trinmphanr. the plaintiff departed with a handsome sum to salve h>s wotrmis.

SEVEN TO DIE FOR. HOSBIBLE CRIME. A telegram from Kilo, on the Island of Hawaii, says that seven Coreans were recently convicted of nmriier in the tirst dejrea in the Superior Court. The crime for which, the ""oreans were convicted, was without parallel in rhe history of the islands. One Corean was suspecttnl of having stolen £10 from another, and. instead of reporting the theft to rhe police, the friends of the man who lost the money adopted Corean methods. The snspecTed Corean was chased through the cane nelds. and when captnred was beaten with sticks and stones until ac was exhausted. Aβ he still refused zo confess rhej' robbed salt in his wounds and lacerated him with a saw. keeping aim from lapsing into unconsciousness by givln£ him occasional sips of wtne.

! When this torture failed to force a confession, they rubbed Japanese soy into , the wounds, causing excruciating pain. Finally a flre waa builf and the man was held over it and burned until he died. The convicted men will be hanged. ORDERED FOR TEBT UVR WIFE. TVhen Edward Kelly, of Na. JS, Fltz-water-street, Philadelphia, meets his wife ifary it will be op to him za explain why ie circulated the report that she was dead and. arranged rhe minutest details for her funeral and interment. Kelly couldn't have been more faetidi3ub in the details ev<m if his better half .'lad gone before. Hβ hired a hearse and ;ight carriages, selected a fine cofl&n. put nineraJ notices in the papere, and produced the deed to a lot ii the cemetery. About two o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon Kelly went to the embalming parlours of an old friend. John A. Donahue. "'My wife died just twenty minutes ago." sai\l I'eily. his voice halfsmothered in apparent arief. Donahue waa sorry to hear the sad news, and did jis best to console his friend. Kelly looked over tile stock Donahue had on hand and made trie arrangements for the funeral to be held from the pariours.

That night. Donahue drove to the house with his men and a cedar box, and was about to enter the house, wh<»n Mrs Drew, whe Is tie landlady of the place, asked what tiey intended w do wirii that box in her Itouse. "We came for tie body of lire Kelly, " said Donahue. ■'But she isn't dead," wae the quick and astounding reply. The undertaker, lite tie man from Missouri, wanted to be shown, and. sure enough, there was Mrs Kelly aittinj by tie kitchen fire ns big as life. She could aot explain, and promised that her uusoand would hare to. AS ANCIENT BRIDE DUPED. Some years ago a wealthy lady, seventythree years old, living in the suburb of Altona, replied to a matrimonial advertisement, and In tais way "made the acquaintance ot a. Danish merchant named Petersen, aged torty-five. Petersen was subsequently a frequent visitor at the fashionable villa of the old lady, who always received him with great hospitality, and often supplied film with money. One day wnen Petersen, was at the vUla a lady, who claimed to be hia wife, presented Tier3elf. There was a stirring scene, which, ended ia Mrs Petersen agreeing- to seek a divorce from h&r aneband on receiYlag a. large sum of money lx>nm tie

married, and Petersen toot his aged fcrWe to Copenhagen, where he bought a villa at a eoet ef £1500. From tlie first day of tHetr wedded Iffs Petersen treated his wife with great ttrncaiicy. On one occasion; lie £ia_niie<l fier a rope and a loaded revolver, telling her either to shoor or hang herself, as soe was a mere imisaiiceWhen this aad. gone on, for tome tine tne old lady succeeded la escaping. She foantl her -way to Hamburg , , where, after telling her story ro the sne sas placed ia the hospital. There she made a -will leaving everything to her niece. Petersen followed his wife, but was arrested by the Hamburg police, and must aow undergo trial. Ivy K.L.TE PEBTSH IN A S>"OWSLJD.E. Twelve miners employed ,ir the Shenandoah mine. ar. Silvertnn. Cotorado, were caught by a great snowslide on the morning of March 19. and swept ro their deaxh. The men who were Silled were members of the force employed ar the Shenandoah. a-nd were on their way to- Silverton. to escape starvation at the mine, the srapply of provisions having run short. They left the mine in che morning, breaking a trail fn fhe deep scrow as they went along. At a particularly dangerous point on the rrail in the side of a eteep mountain o-ne of the trail breakers stumbled. This started the snow sliding, and the entire side ot the mountain se»me»f to be mnvfngi Twelve men. were enguifed and lost t» view in rhe ava/anchef One man ownped and hurried on to Howardsville. three miles down the gulch, and telephoned to Silverton for help. TRAGEDY ENDS GTTIL<TY LOVE. August Louis N-osser. a New York gambler and turfman, ended his career in shewktng fashion an the morning of Marcii ia. In rooms occupied by himself and wife in the Pierrepont apartment hotel. Nosser locked his wife in rhe bathroom, shot Eetelle Young, an a.crress. whom he had deceived and wrans&d. through the head, killing her instauTty. and then killed Ulmself with a. second bullet.

When Nosser married Eva Haines flfe years ago he was a young violinist, who ajui arrived in New Tort from Belgium wlrta the indorsement of the King, who had been unarmed by his playlnjj. T/ntil he nirned gambler Nosser made a good living playing in orchestras, and he and his wife were happy, but in the course of time he became all that a gambler nsuatly becomes—bankrupt. "Unfaithful and a. ricrim of drugs. E-steile Toung. wliom Noe^pj , killed, was formerly a fhorns ?ir\. hatj lavished money on her. and diamonds and jewellery worth were found on ncr bo<iT

Recently, ifrs Xosser discovered the relations bet-ween the ausband and Miss Yonnjf, and that they were about to go to Europe together. The wife wrote the ?irl a pathetic letter, begging hw to give up Her reply was to go to the Nosser apartments, armed with a horsewhip. Therr , was rhe auual si-sne betwpfu rhe three persons, ending with Nosser attempting suicide with landannm. A

physician aaved him. and the two women nursed him the rest of the night. Early in the morning Mrs Nosaer went into the bathroom. Immediately after she was locked in by Nosser. who at once killed his mistress and himself.

A remarkable feature of this f-asc is its resemblance to the Tragedy in which tn.e late ''aesar Young and Nan Patterson Sgured. N-osser and Younjf were both, bookmakers and gamblers. Miss Tonng and

Hiss Patterson were bora pretty chorus Both Nosser s wife and Young's wife wrnic natlietic letters to rhe miacreases uf their respective husbands, pleading to give the men up. Noaaer iiillad himself and Miss Tmms on rhe eve of a European trip. Caesar Young was shot while on the way to the pier to embark for a European trip. Bach man was about 40 years old, and each giri involved about 2C years old.