STRANGE STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 129, 30 May 1908, Page 15

STRANGE STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

SCENE AT AN ARREST. A telegram from Montreal to the "NewYork Herald" gives particulars of a tragic affair which, occurred there recently, in connection with an attempt on the part of the police to arrest a Liverpool man, named Asastius Smith, against wtiom a magisterial warrant had been issued. As soon ac he became aware of the issue of the warrant. Smith barricaded himself in his liouse and defied the police to take him. When several policemen and detectives attempted to force the door, Smith appeared at a window with a six-chambered revolver in his hand, and fired three shots, billing the chief detective on the spot, and severely wounding another. The police thereupon withdrew and called out some firemen, who played upon the house with several hosepipes, pouring thousands of gallons of water through the windows. But even this did not have the effect of causing Smith to surrender, ana finally, when he again made an appearance at one of the windows, a policeman fired at him with a revolver and mortally wounded him. PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER DRIVES AN ENGINE. Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the seventeen-year-old daughter of President Roosevelt, Is proving herself a worthy successor to her sister Alice, now the wife of Representative Longworth. Miss Alice Roosevelt was famous in Washington and elsewhere for her love of adventure and novel enterprise. Just now Miss Ethel is on a visit to the South, with her mother. Lately she Oej lighted her friends by visiting the Louisfi ana Plantation school, and herself teacu- ; ing a class of 100 black children for over an hour. Later she actually drove an express train Into Atlanta, and arrived punctually. "This lias been the jolliest hour of my whole life." said Miss Et&el, as she brought j the express to a stop, and surrendered the I lever to the engineer. "I am so Sorry ii is finished." Miss Roosevelt had run the train from New Tork, fifty miles from Atlanta, and sometimes the speed was fifty miles an hoar. "It is a good Job papa Is not with us," said the young lady, "or I should not be here." She had secured her mother's consent to ride on the engine. Mrs RooseTeit and her three little sons were in a private car on the train which followed. The engineer proudly accepted the responsibility of taking charge of Miss Ethel, and under his personal direction, she pulled the levers, blew the whistles, and generally proved a courageous and Intelligent pupilFIGHT FOR WORK. A pitched battle between 100 Italians and four times that number of Poles and Russians who were searching for work toot place at Linden, New Jersey, on April 10, and resulted in at least twenty casualties. For weeks rival armies of labourers have been camping outside the huge refineries which the Standard Oil Company is erecting The Poles arrived first on the scene, but were soon followed by the Italians, : who brought with them their wives and household effects and built themselves rough shanties in the fields outside the refineries. As the Italians were applying for work the Poles marched towards them in military fashion four abreast. The Italian women immediately drew brand new revolvers from under their shawls—for the men owin- to the recent police visitations* no longer carry firearms-and handed the ™n°« ,o their husbands. Indiscriminate inally the Italians charged the "Poles and broke their formation. For three-quarters of an hoar Jb., nv* I factions fought with knires and jHStols, and (

officials of the Standard Oil Company who witnessed the battle declare that scores of men fell either wounded or dead. Finally the police arrived, read the 'Riot Act in the two languages, quelled the disturbance, and arrested as many of the ringleaders as they could capture. Forty 'revolvers were confiscated, bat with the exception of two men who had bullet holes in their cheeks no wounded were found, the belligerents having seized all the injured as soon as they fell and concealed them in tents and huts. THE COUKTSHIP OF PRINCE DE SAGAN. Mme. Anna Gould and her pertinacious suitor. Prince Helie de Sagan, are now on their way to Europe, says a New York dispatch ol April 10th. The lady, who escaped the reporters by mating her departure from the kitchen of the Hotel St. Begis. sailed by the Friedrich der Grosse, and the prince bj the St. Paul. "I go back to France very happy," the Prince de Sagan informed the interviewers, "as a successful suitor, but there has not been any marriage." Then he added, quickly, "not yet." **Oh. bow aick I am of this country!"' the prince ejaculated. "Bah, I've been treated most scandalously." MAN WHO KILLED HIS MOTHER. "Take him away; he can't be human!" Such was the horrified exclamation of the New York magistrate before whom Bernard Carlin was brought on a charge of murdering his own mother. Carrin bad been in prison for theft, and immediately on his release went straight to his mother's house, shot her. and attempted to kill his four brothers and sisters. He is a repellant-looking, stunted, young fellow of twenty-two, with, weak, red-rimmed eyes. Aeked his motive, he replied: "My mother has got what she deserved. She placed mc as a baby with careless attendants who dropped poison in my eyes and damaged them for life. I never could see properly. and was denounced at school as idle and good-for-nothing. Tired of the mockery or the other boys. I remained away from the class-room, and was then placed in a reformatory school. "I have always longed for affection, but no one has ever shown it mc. Whea I left the school I found it impossible to get work because of my poor eyesight. My mother, instead of pitying, flonted mc and finally had mc sent to prison for stealing. When I got home the other day. none/ot them welcomed mc, so I shot my mother. How sorry I am I failed to kill the rest of the family none will ever know." "You are not sorry, then, for what you have done?" asked the magistrate. "Sorry?" cried prisoner. No. Why. my mother did not even write to mc in prison* I am clad I killed her."