STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 137, 10 June 1911, Page 17

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

■ i m REMARKABLE EASTING , WOMAN.

It is reported from New York that 4 sensation has been caused by the announcement that a woman named Annie Geshella, aged thirty, an Austrian by birth, has been an inmate of a hospital at Morris Plains, New Jersey, for the past sixty-five days without having taken any nourishment whatever throughout that period, with the exception of four glasses of milk and th< juice from half an orange. These facts are well authenticated, and the doctors at the hospital are completely, mystified. The woman herself, who it very weak, declares the angels have tejj her.

RICH MAN ACCUSED OF BURGLARY.

An extraordinary case of the Jekyll and Hyde type has been disclosed by the action of the Government in seizing property to the valne of fS.OOO belonging to Mr K. F. Cummings, of Tneoma, Washington State. According to the Government lawyers, Mr Cummings, one of the most respected and popular citizens of Tacoma. is identical with .Eddie Fay. a notorious burglar; who a few months ago was arrested and sentenced to .ten years' imprisonment at the Atlanta Convict Prison for a daring robbery at Richmond, Vh-ginia. Mr. Cummings is a handsome and cultured gentleman aud a member of the leading clubs at Tneoma. lie was engaged to a wealthy girl of good family, and was supposed to have large business interests in eastern Wtates which gave him an excuse for prolonged absence from home. When captured at New York Fay was claiming the possession at the Grand Central Station of trunks containing some £17,000 worth of stamps taken from a safe at the Richmond Tost Office. Of these stolen stamps over £3000 worth were missing. Fay was fastidious even on burgling expeditions, as was proved by the presence la •the trunks of a magnificent set of burglar's tools, wrapped in tissue paper and enclosed in handsome leather eases. Iv his pockets there was found a directory of banks, with the habits of the janitors nnd the position of the safes exactly described. Mouths of research by Government agents led to the surprising allegation that Fay. after each successful expedition, \raa in the habit of retiring to Tacoma where" he resumed the habits of a gentleman of wealth. .Leading hostesses in Tacoma, wli> had been speculating for several weeks ca the mystery of Mr. Cumming's disappearance, declare they recognise their favourit* guest in the photographs of .Eddie Fay.

. , SORROWS OF A SUFFRAGIST. '

Mrs O. 11. P. Belmont, an elderly wealthy leader of the American Suffragist movement in New York, summoned at the police court Dr. John Jaehola, a Finnish suffrage speaker, whom she imported recently from Finland, ou a charge of disorderly conduct. According to Mrs Belmont's counsel this consisted of sending her roses with fervid kisses and lying in wait for her at her office door and at the home of her friends to tell her of his love and to Importune her to marry him. "Mrs Belmont." said counsel, "is tired of this farce and wants to end it. She has therefore taken these proceedings." "I am surprised at this action," retorted Dr. Jaehola. "She received tbe roses I sent her with my poetry, but I do not desire to annoy the lady." He admitted addressing Mrs Belmont ns his divine goddess in a recent effusion aud said he admired her as a remarkable personality. Under the magistrate's questioning he agreed to stop "annoyances,'' whereupon the summons was dismissed.

LYNCHED ON THE STAGE.

Kentucky established a new record in I lynching in April, when a mob at Livermore took a negro, who had killed a white man, from the local gaol, hanged him on .; the stage of the theatre, and charged a I small sum for admission for persons to | enter and shoot at the body. The money I taken at the door went to the family of the white man the negro killed. Those j who bought orchestra seats had the privl- | lege of emptying their six-shooters at the j swaying form above them, but the gallery occupants were limited to one shot. I The whole town was for a time In the possession of the mob, and Kentucky deI spatches published in New York say that ' the body was riddled with bullets. ■ ls o n'so ! was the woodland scenery of the local I theatre, which a few hours before was set up for the presentation of a much milder 1 melodrama. ! Frank Mitchell, the young man shot by 1 the negro, was very popular, and his friends ' determined that his revenge should be prompt and lurkl. so that other negroes who . might have grudges against white people ' might learn a salutary lesson. Having been dragged to the stage, the victim was bouud, : and, with a rope under his arms, was elevated a few feet above the footlights. His captors then took their places In tho orchestra and pit. and at a given signal the auditorium echoed with the rattle of fire- ! arms. A few minutes later tho lights wor© i turned down and the curtain lowered, rSld then the mob quietly dispelled, '-j