STRANGE STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 15

STRANGE STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

10S-lEAR-OLD BRIDEGROOM. - The following report appears in a New ■York newspaper: — The marriage was celebrated at BrownsT nie to-day of a sturdy Rabbi, aged 106, to a gay, giddy girl of seventy. "Babbi Barnet WoUnski, the happy bridegroom, has 175 living descendants in Knssla and America. They are planning a grand reunion for his 110 th birthday. The bride, who said Tes' after a brief, j tempestuous courtship, is the widow of an old friend of the Rabbi." GRUESOME MURDER STORY. A man described as a vaudeville actor was arrested at Boston on August 29th on a charge of murdering his wife, who was also on the stage. The woman's dismembered body was found in a trunk in a Boston boardinghonse, whither It had been removed from Somerville, where the crime Is alleged. to have been committed, and where the head and bones of the arms and legs from which the flesh had been scraped, were discovered in a furnace. The scalp and other gruesome remains were found in a Ktchen range. According to the police the man has confessed that he killed the woman accidentally on Tuesday evening, during a quarrel caused by jealousy, and, fearing the consequences of his act, he cut up the bony, and placed it in the trunk, with tho intention of throwing it overboard from a steamer on the way from Boston to New Xorfe. PUZZLE OF A DOCTOR'S DEATH. Dr. Frederick T. Rustin, a well known Yale athlete, and one of the most popular Bnrgeons in the western half of the continent, was discovered in the porch of his honse at Omaha, Nebraska, on September 3rd, dying from a bullet wound in the abdomen. The belief gains ground that a jealous woman is responsible for the mnrder. "A man shot mc," gasped the doctor with his last breath, but the police are convinced that his words were prompted by a chivalrous desire to shield the murderess from enspicion. A curious feature of the case is the fact that no blood was discovered in the porch, while inside the front door the floor was covered with bloodstains. A housemaid declares that she saw the doctor writhing in agony inside the house, whereas Mrs Rustin, the doctor's wife, says she found him dying in the porch. Five hours elapsed before the police were called in. The doctor called on a patient late tho previous evening, and did not return, apparently, till three o'clock in the morning, vrhen he was discovered by his wife at the point of death. Miss Leona Burnley, a young woman living in Omaha, states that fhe accompanied the murdered man within a short distance of his home, but says that she left him soon inter lnmuignt. What happened between then and the time of the tragedy Is a mystery that is baffling the police. GIRL'S STRUGGLE WITH A MAD FATHER. The tower of the Chicago Auditorium was the scene, on Saturday. August 29th, of a thrilling incident, in which an insane father attempted to throw his daughter from the top to the pavement below. The man was John Schillins, who had recently been re- I leased from the insane asylum as being "cured , ," and had returned to his home iv Chicago. On Saturday Schilling took his • daughter, who Is 12 years of age, for a walk, in the coarse of which they went up the Anditorinm tower, which is open to the public, and from which a fine view is obtained of the city. Once on the top the man's head seems to have been turned, and, without any warning he seized the girl aud attempted to throw her over the battlemeutei parapet which stands a little more than waist high. A fearful struggle ensned on the top of the tower, 310 ft above fie street, for the two were alone, and there was no one to help the girl. She wildly clung to her father, and uttered Sγ Jo - nd cries - wbicb after a »«<* attracted people passing in Wabash-avenue on -the opposite side of the tower, many of whom Stood awestruck by the sight T/the terrible struggle going on so far above their heado. Others, however, with greatth' mlnd H CeOf tTw? P e r ™ hed * °»>*% ot ta th7nV WerE ShOt UP the 16 6t Lin a " " PreSS M. *■* "rived w ' Waß com P letel y at the insane Zα « WSS SlTen into custod y- *"d wIU probably be sent back to th e asylum AIBSHIP IN FLAMES. Another has to be added to the long list Bf fatal accidents associated to secure the mastery of the air The latest victim is an American aeroth-! "T** °- °- • lon£S, who met his death foif a <Usplay with a diri e ib,e »»'• iSZZT™* Malne ' ° n Wednesda * 2?Z* ttonsand people, deluding acmes wrfe and chil( i i had assembled to Watch the ascent. When the word was £»en to let go, the airship rose easily «M gracefully, bnt when 500 ft in the air «c spectators were horrified to see small tonmes of flame shooting out in front of the motor near the gas-bag. It was pretty "ear that some sparks from the motor fitd reached the gas m tne envelope. 'jFor some moments Jones did not appear to notice the flames. Wien he did become 7JTT Ot thC danEer he *»» r* COta » Ending to Eltf the balloon, let the £as escape, and thus£ bring the airship to eaita a* quickly as possible. But it was too late. With a rush and a rt ?* 58 enveloped the gas-bag, and , ""mework, becoming detached, fell With the aeronaut to the ground. It was & miracle that Jones was not killed at owe. As it was, he was so terribly injured that he died in an hour. BARB-FOOTED ACTRESS PARADES BSOADWAY. It takes a great deal to make Broadway Bssp. and Miss Isadore Duncan, the dancer *"« Is responsible for the general exhalation O f astonished breath, may flatter her»«i that she has done a remarkable thing. AS gtfly and unconcernedly as the Greek maidens she simulates, Miss Duncan strolled «ong Broadway In her bare feet on August "~ Pedes trians stared, turned, laughed or Sasped according to their temperaments'. Pipe her little tootsies," yelled an irreverent newsboy. But Miss Duncan, undis°W«l. pursued the shoeless tenor of her *»* toward the offices of Charles Froh.fflM in the Empire Theatre. _Oad In a pink dress of classical cut, ««■ a pint poke bonnet wjde ««am ers hid under her chin the dancer sovereigns have delighted to honour 'Mmcd entirely unaware of the effect she • w as producing. sc^' 6 !? 1 " 1 ElaDCe told the analytical ob "fVcr that on the bottom of each of th ■ f*ns feet that have been Miss Duncan's ° r t*»e was a Btrip of leather resemblin «c ancient Greek sandal and that this V*h<A& on by a strap. Bnt nothing impeded the vision of her It led tOes ' Thc - V wer <> n» there. > rLlm, PCrtCCt - twJnk ""S «° scornful dettar t \,™ 7 ChUrl E ° baSC !,S t0 cons:der ° UtlnS " th,nc "traordicary. the Frohman offices, the elevator -««UH Mia Dnnean and her toes.