STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 17

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

HEART AND LIVER MIXED. ■When surgeons operaeed on Mrs. Laura Casßell, of Widde], at the Davis Memori.il j Hospital iv ElMns, West Virginia, they found hep internal organisation just the reverse of that of normal human beings. The spleen was on the right side instca'l <>f tbf left, ■the liver on the loft side, and. strangest of all, the lieart was on the right side. A SKYSCRAPER GAOL In the old days criminals were confined in underground! dungeons. The twentieth century houses them In skyscrapers. New York City is about to build the tallest gaol in the world. It is 1o tie of the modern office building type of architecture, fourteen s:oreys high. The Board of F.slLmate has voted £00.000 for the construction of the building, which will be erected on the site of the old Tenderloin police station. EXPERT WOMAN GUNNER.' Mrs. Lulu B. Kurt, policewoman, qualified last month as one of the best revolver shots in the Chicago police force. Wit h a score of 02 out of 100. she won the gold medal at the women's resolver match of the Sportsmen's Chili of America, shooting at the regulation target ,'it 7."i yurds, Mrs. Durt had never handled a revolver before her recent appointment to the police force. I.ieutenaut Westbrook. pis:ol instructor of the force, said that not 35 per ceut. of the policemen could score better than 50 out of 100. PRISON FOR STEALING KISSES. A long sentence for stealing kisses has been passed on Charles Guyton by Superior Judge Williss. of Los Angeles, and the convicted man has been sent to San Quentin. California, prison. Guyton wus shoivn to be an im-orrigible character, as a petty highwayman, but the actual charge against him was of stealing Cid an<l three kisses from Miss Daisy Sragwald, a charming young San Quentin girl, lie held up the girl at the point of a revolver, and took the coppers from her pnrse. Learning that this was all the money she had to get home with. Guyton kissed the girl and returned iJie money, with the remark, "It was worth it." COURTSHIP TIME LIMIT. In the Legislature of Massachusetts. L'.S.A.. n bill is under discussion for the taxing of bachelors. It also contains a clause limiting the length of courtship. If. after two years' "courtship" a man has not proposed, ho is to be considered a bachelor, and taxed as such. Severe criticism of these quaint proposals was made by Miss Elizabeth Banks, the well known American journalist. "Such a law would do away with all good friendship and comradeship between men and women," she said. "To speak of "proposals' in these modern days is nonsense, anyway. Very soldom does anybody say, 'Will you marry me?' Eyes just look into eyes, and there's an end of it—or, rather, the beginning of it." NO LIQUOR ADVERTISEMENTS. The Chicago "Record-Herald" recently nmde the following announcement:-— "The T.ecord-Herald' has decided to alt urinate liquor advertising from its columns. It will fulfil its existing contracts to print this class of advertising and having done that it will accept it no more. "In making this announcement the "Record-Hera Id" desires to be rightly understood. The mamifa-ctnre and sale of liquoT is sanctioned by law and the advertising is legitimate advertising. "The 'Record-Herald' does not deny the view that pure alcoholic liquors have their "wise and proper use in individual instances, but contends that the responsibility for the advocacy of such use shonld rest with the family physician, rather than the family newspaper, and declines henceforth to share this responsibility." GENERAL VILLA OUTWITTED. A dramatic sequel is reported from New Orleans to the "reprieve" granted by General Villa, the Mexican rebel leader, in deference to urgent representations from Mr Bryan, the United Stares Secretary of State, to Setror Luis Terrazas, jun., the fMexican millionaire, who was condemired to be shot in default of a ransom. Senor Terrazas, unable to pay the £50.000 demanded a? itte price of his release, was kept a close prisoner in his marble palace at Chihuahua. In the confusion resulting from the ten days' battJe at Torreon Senor Terrazas succeeded in making his escape. He was aided by an old servant of the family, wtro. though a follower of Genera;! Villa, disguised his master and flew with Mm. Senor Terraras and the servant! readied SaMUlo. beyond reach of the rebels, and then made their way to Mexico City. KILLED WITH AN AXE. Aα urridentifled assassin murdered with an axe Mrs Ulilra Francis and three of iher children in their home near Fendley. ■having previously set fire to the house (says a report from Little Kock, Arkansas). Mr Francis, the husband and father, and a fourth child ■narrowly escaped the same fate. According to statements made by 1 Francis, he was awakened about four o'clock in the morning by the barking of "his dog, and found -his house In flames. Abowt this time. Francis said, he saw a man enter his wife's room carrying an axe. Believing the intruder was searching for him, Francis said he ran into the yard in an effort to draw the man away from the house, but the slayer remained and killed Mrs Francis and the three children, ranging to age from two to six years. A DETECTIVE'S FATE. Detective Joseph Gnarnieri. of the New York police, has been shot while trying to arrest a drunken murderer. Charlee Moser, a publican, staggered into the police station, ami said that tie had been shot through the Inng by Thomas Horgan, a labourer. Cuornieri was sent with three j<t>inr:ulr3 I" track the criminaL Tbey I learned thru Horjraa was hiding in a i ft-ie-nd's ix.irse. The buiiding was surrounded, and Guarnieri, with Detective ilaerle. proceeded to a darkened back room. On entering. Guaxnieri, who had n. reputalion for capturing men without the use. of : his revolver, struck a match, and saw Horgan crouching behind the curtains. The ; detective stepped , forward to grapple with the fugitive, bill two shots from Korean's revolver eniered hi> head and neck, and he fcJI dead. Il.icrle. wb'> was close behind, drew his weapon. ;iD'i. .liming by the light uf ;he fla'lie? from Ilorgan's pistol. sbel and killed him. Guarcricri only thirty years "f .i?c and leave- a widow and three children, Uic youngest or whom j if faux yearjs, J