STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 16

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

SHE'S THE NINETEENTH. Mrs. Belle- Beasley was found one day last November standing over the dead body of her husband with a newspaper clipping telling of the acquittal of seventeen Chicago women who had been charged with murder. Mrs. ■■ Beasley was .acquitted on February 12, making the nineteenth. ' , BANK ROBBERS FOILED. When William Cross, cashier of the Mohawk German Banking and Savings Company, Clnclnnatti, was ordered to throw up his hands by two men who attempted to rob the bank, be grabbed a pistol and fired. One robber seized a roll of bills on the counter, and both fled. Cross followed,- firing. One robber dropped dead, and the other -was-captured. WHITE MAN LYNCHED. At Mayfield, Ky., Thomas Tinker, white, who, it Is charged, shot and. killed Constable Richard Tapt, was' taken from the county jail and lynched. His body was then riddled with bullets.' ' Fifty or' more men who rode' in from the- northern part of tbe county, where the shooting 1 of the constable took place, assisted in-the'lynching. SUICIDE BY DYNAMITE. William R., Lockard, a .well-borer and pioneer resident of'Napa county, California, committed suicide' in a sensational manner. Dying down on his bed at bis family residence, bee, placed a dynamite cap on top of his head, put his hat on and lighted tbe attached fuse. , He then calmly awaltedtheend. His'head was blown off. AI BOY BANK ROBBER. At Houston, Tex., on.January. 26th, a boy robber entered the Guarantee State Bank drove the bank officials into ■ the vault at the- point. of a revolver, locked tbem up and fled with - between - -4.000 and 5,000 dollars.. He was pursued and killed before he bad run a dozen blocks.- . WOMEN CRIMINALS DEFICIENT Dr. Katherine Bement'. Davis, commissioner of charities in New .York, says that the tests as to mental capacity of girls sent to Bedford Reformatory shows that out of 200.but one was as high as a girl of 12 years, most of them having no higher mental age than I), or. 10 years. In the history of the institution bnt one girl has ranked as high as!a girl of 15. She waa a Brooklyn teacher and .was sent to the institution for the crime of forgery. "GAMP" VERSUS REVOLVER. A woman's vigorous wielding of an umbrella resulted in the arrest in San Francisco, of a robber who attempted to hold her up. after she had left a taxi-cab ' and dismissed the chauffeur. Mrs. A. ' Bostick, who lives at, the Larkin apart- | raents, 734, Larkin Street, stepped out of the taxi-cab at 1.30 o'clock and started for the door, when it flew open, and a man, revolver In hand, confronted her. "Hold up your hands!" commanded, the robber. "Just wait a moment," Mrs. Bostick replied. But she gave him no chance to wait. She struck btm over the head with her umbrella until he fell unconscious on the doorstep. The police were called, and took the battered highwayman to the station. A STALWART " COPETTE." The first exposition policewoman In the history of expositions has been appointed at San Francisco. She is Miss Blanche Payson, and she tips the scales at exactly 233!b5, Is 6ft 4}ln tall, and is only 21 years old. She has a "peachbloom" complexion; has large, brown eyes; is a brnnette, with a plentiful supply of hair; and her disposition Is as nice as It can be. Moreover, she is a native daughter, having been born in Santa Barbara Connty, and is the niece of the one-time police chief for twenty-five years of the city of that name. Miss Payson will wear the regulation uniform 'of the Exposition police (with modlflca- . lions suited to her sex, of course), and be lin charge in Toyland. In this capacity [she will- protect all women and children who go there. Quite a crowd was on hand | when she smiled complacently down on the i Chief of Police—who i* blmielf 6ft an tempted bM bad** eat •<•**