CONTINENTAL CRIMES AND SENSATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 13

CONTINENTAL CRIMES AND SENSATIONS.

STABBED TO DEATH BY NEEDLE. A littlp girl of Angouleme, named Anna .Coin, was helping her small brother down •from a sherrfTladen waggon, when she drove a needle, which .was fastened in her bodice, into her heart, and" died on the spot. BOY'S CODD-BLOODED MURDER. A boy of fourteen, in Arnsberg, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for wilfully murdering a playfellow with whom he had quarrelled. He pounded the child's head against a jagged stone until life was extinct. REVENGEFUL VALET. An Englishman — Mr Vivian Worth w has been the victim of a murderous attack, close to his villa, at Brolles, in the Bois-le-Roi district, close to Fontainebleau. He was discovered lying insensible in the road with terrible injuries to his face and head. After being medically attended to he recovered consciousness, and said he had been attacked by his valet, a man named Varly, whom he had had occasion to severely reprimand early in the day. The two were returning home, Varly in front, when the valet suddenly turned and fiercely attacked his master with a stick, rendering him insensible. It Is probable that Varly had confided his intention to a friend, who agreed to join in the assault, for another version speaks of two nien attacking Mr Worth. After one had struck him to the ground with a stick, the other was about to stab him, but the first assailant said "No; that's enough. The Englishman's done for." Mr Worth is in danger of losing his eyesight. COUNT SHOT IN BED. Great mystery surrounds the shooting in Venice of Count Kamarowski, a Russian, who took a suite of apartments eight months ago in the Campo Santa Maria del Giglio. Another Russian, who gave the name of Naouinofr, recently arrived at the Hotel Danieli, from Orel. On Tuesday, September 3rd, Naouinoff went by gondola to Count Kamarowski's apartments and asked to see him. The servant refused to admit him, as the count had not yet risen. The visitor, hower, forced his way in, and, drawing a revolver, emptied five chambers at the count. He than left the house and returned to his hotel, whence shortly after he proceeded to the station and departed by train. Count Kamarowski was immediately conveyed to the. hospital, where he was found to be seriously wounded. The count, who took part in the RussoJapanese war, stated, when questioned by the Russian consul, that he had received several letters intimating that a Russian was coming to Venice to murder him, but he paid no attention to them. The police are rather oelatedly doing al In their power to effect the arrest of Naouinoff, and arc said to have discovered that he gave the gondolier £16 to take him. away. WOMAN'S STRANGE FREAK IN A PARIS HOTEL. After conducting herself for some days in remarkable fashion, an American lady has had to be taken to the police 'infirmary in Paris last month. , The lady calls herself Mrs Amy Boot, and claims to be a cousin of the U.S. Secretary of "State". "When she first arrived In the French .capital she went to the hotel Normanby, and sent the proprietor frantic by dancing the Mattchiche on one of the dining room tables before dinner was finished. Then she developed a mania for driving around in cabs. One took her to a Montmartre dancing hall, and on her way back she playfully hit the jarvey over the head with her umbrella. When he got down to expostulate, the lady leaped from his cab and jumped into another, in which she returned to the .hotel, the first cabman following on behind. All night the two drivers remained outside waiting for their fares, and listening to Mrs Root practising operatic airs until five in the morning, when her fancy took another turn, and for three hours she amused herself ringing all the bells she could find. On the following day she had no fewer than ten cabs, and engaged rooms at several hotelSi sleeping at the Continental, where she asked the concierge to pay a £4 fare for her. Next day she pursued the same tactics, stopping for the night at another hotel. Next day 6he visited all the hotels where she knew Americans were staying, but at night the police had to intervene. EPIDEMIC OF CRIME. Something like a crime wave, resembling the recent epidemic in New York, appears to Be passing over France generally, and Paris in particular, says a Paris despatch of September 4. In Paris within the last three days a father killed his son, a woman shot a pedestrian dead, Apaches killed a woman and wounded a .man, and In a dispute In a cafe one man was shot dead and two others wounded. In the country, a farm"v's wife has been murdered at Garentreville, and a woman of seventy murdered, and an attempt made to burn her body near Marseilles. In Paris on August 28, a Russian named Pollouss shot bis wife and killed himself, whiie near Lille a woman and a girl were murdered. Night robberies and assaults by Apaches in the streets of the capital are more numerous at present than for some time pa6t.