News From All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 70, 22 March 1919, Page 19

News From All Quarters

What is claimed to be the world's biggest hotel, the Pennsylvania, which has 2.200 rooms with baths, was opened In New York recently. Instructing the loral police to be on the lookout for boy smokers, the Mayor of Tiverton mentioned the case of a lad who . was spending 10 t; a week on cigarettes, > and added, "We cannot expect to raise an Al race from juvenile soiokers." HAUNTED HOUSE HUNT. Haunted house wanted, to rent or pur,and. within M miles of London. So ran I an advertisement which appeared recently j in a London newspaper. LITTLE BOY AND THE VOICE. Explaining that he •heard a voice" telling him to do it. a boy, aged nine, confessed at Cheadle. Cheshire, that he stole £10 from his uncle's farmhouse, where he had been staying. He was bound over. DEATH OF 7FT. 7IN. MAN. One of the tallest men in the world, Mr Albert Brougb. of the Cremorne Hotel. Nottingham, died recently of influenza. Mr Brough's height was 7ft 7Jin. For his funeral a hearse had to be specially lengthened. CHILDS PATHETIC QUESTION. "Do people sleep with their eyes open?" aske.l the little daughter of Mrs Charlotte I ISlaxland, a Northumberland solicitor's widow, when she lound her mother lying dead. A Darlington jury found that death was due to poisoning through a leak from a gas stove. DEAD FATHER UNRECOGNISED. Richard Djnstan. a ship's steward, was found dead in Hull, near his house, early in the morning. When on his way to work in the dark D'instan's son saw a man whom he tuougiu to be drunk lying on the footpath. He t..ld a policema-n. who found that the man was dead, and that he was the father of the man who had given the information. MADMAN WITH A POKER. A retired sailor, Tom Pascoe, aged 70, living on a pension at Braintree, Essex, jumped out of bed at six o'clock in the morning and ran up and down the street lin his shirt, smashing the windows or 1 shops and houses with a poker and shouting that he wanted to let light into the world. He broke 300 windows and knocked a man <lnwn. I When overpowered he was found to be I insane, and was taken to the asylum. I WIFE'S BURIAL 'WISH. A faculty to have her husband exhumed and reiuterred in another part of Leckhamrrtrin (Gloucestershire) Churchyard, so J that she could be burled by his side, was < granted In Gloucester Consistory Court to Mrs Rebecca Sheldon Beasley. After her husbands death, in May last, she ascertained that when she came to' die she could be burled only above him and not by his side, unless a new grave were found. BURGLAR CHASES HIMSELF. When Walter Melns, an American Indian. was at Berks Quarter Sessions sentenced to 30 days' bard labour for burglary it was stated that after he had broken I into a house he helped the landlady to search for the burglar. He had been drinking. Major MacLaren, Canadian Forestry Corps, said it was a crime in Canada and the United States to give Indians liquor. One whisky and soda was sufficient to make them irresponsible for their actions. A MADMAN'S CRIMES. A shocking affair is reported from San Gregorio (Calabria 1. where a young man of go*»l family, Adolfo Oroco. was suddenly seized with madness and, arming himself with a bayonet, killed his wife and his three children. He then ran to the municipal offices and. barricading himself within |one of the rooms, began flrin; revolver shots at the passers-by. The place was eventually surrounded by carahlnlerl. who succeeded in effecting his capture, but not before he had set fire to the building, and mortally wounded himself. The flames were quickly extinguished. VEILED WOMAN STABBED. A mysterious murder of a young and fashionably dressed woman occurred in the Bois de Vincennes, near Paris, recently. Some hospital orderlies saw her being pursued by a soldier and calling for help. I threw her down and stabbed her with a i knife. Throwing off his military greatcoat I the man disappeared into the wood, fol- ! lowed hy the orderlies, and escaped. I No papers were found on the victim, who I was heavily veiled and wore n quantity of I jewellery, including a medal inscribed I •T.-.icienne. .nine 1507." The only distinguishing mark on the soldier's coat was an Army motor driver's • badge. A MORBID CROWD. I i More than one thousand men and women ', clamoured for admission to the Bronx • . County Court in New York when three * young men were sentenced to die at Sing '■Sing for the murder of Otto Fialo. a ticket " agent of the Intervale subway station. I 1 The prisoners were James P. Cassidy. : ' who was known to the police as a Harlem leader; Charles F. McLaughlin, and 1 ; Joseph Mllano. r | When Cassidy was asked If he knew 0! should not be Imposed upon him, he replied defiantly: "(in ahead. 1 have no objection." Finlo was kil'.e'i during an attempt to rob the Intervale station. CREW'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL. A sensational shooting tragedy Is reported fro-n Cardiff. On Christmas Eve the French ?terime r Augusta put into Cardlfl wltb a terrible story of the crew's ordea! In the Rriftol Channel. During pevere wenthpr the captain. M Ge'aereaux. suddenly lost his reason, an> ran around the deck with a loaded revolve! Ithre2 teni to shoot anyone who crossed hu path. He shot a sailor in the mouth, and wai about to shoot aialn, when he was over powered .in<i carried to his cabin and thi revolver taken away. The vessel, whi-h was bound for Swan sen. put into Cardiff to Inform the police who, upon entering the cabin. dUeoverec that tbe captain had shot himself deai with a rifle, which was lying beside him The cabin was riddled with shot, am I cartridges were strewn over the floor.

Unemployed munition girls In Soutll Wales have been offered work as grave diggers. CRUELTY IN CHINESE MANNER. In frosty weather Thomas Stephenson, m Gateshead miner, held one of his children .under a tap. and allowed the water to run orer its body. He was sentenced to tw» months' imprisonment. ROBBERIES IN AMERICA. Several daring robberies have been committed recently (says a New York messags). At Everett iM.iss.) six men "held ■ up" the paymaster of the General Electric [Company, and escaped with 000 dols. Thieves bound and gagged the cashier at the Bank at Dalgren (Illinois), who escaped with Ij.OCi dols.. while the Illinois I National Bank, at Summit was raided by masked men who effected a capture of '2.3,000 dols. TKE UNWRITTEN LAW. In a case at North London it was stated that while Corporal Ernest A. Cray, R.F.A., was in Salonika, reports concerning his wife and 'William M. Reynolds, a telephone inspector, of Bushey, reached him. Hβ came home to inquire into them, and after arranging a meeting with Reynolds at I'arkholme Road. Dalston, attacked him with a heavy stick. Mr. C. V. Young, who defended, drew from both Reynolds and Mrs Cray admissions which, he contended, justified Cray in bis action. Mr. Hay Ila'kett, the magistrate, said the unwritten law did not prevail In England, but (n the circumstances be called 00 Cray to find two sureties to keep the peace for sis months. WOMANS THREE MARRIAGES. Allegations of double bigamy were made at Westminster, when Aua Adshead, aliaa Cecilia Paterson, was charged with bigamy and with defrauding the Australian Commonwealth of pension allowances amounting to £23. According to the police the woman waa married in her maiden name of Richards to Bertram Adahead, now au Army sergeant She went through a second ceremony of marriage with Reginald Paterson, at Sydney, New South Wales, in December, 1915, and In March of this year mamed Sergeant Hoban, who was soon alter killed In action. A police-sergeant said it -was believed ing about £20 a month, in respect of allowances, allotments, and pension. The woman, who fainted several times la the dock, was committed for trial. BOYS MURDER PLOT STORY. An extraordinary story of how his grandmother came to him with s. request that he should kill her husband, who dcjes not live witL her, was related by Thomas Richard Hughes, aged 13, in a London Police Court. The grandmother, Alice Boden, was brought before tbe magistrate, and the boy said she had met him in the street, given him a heavy piece of iron, and said, "Hit the old man two on the head with that." Later she said. "Directly I read in the paper cf his death I will give you £2." She had also suggested, said the boy, that he should sicnal to her from outside the iaouse by moving the curtain, while she would move her hand against the white paint on the fence opposite. The grandmother denied the story entirely. The Magistrate: Someone is committing perjury. You are discharged WHS BEASTS FOR SALE. The war stopped the international trade in wild beasts, which was lar;eiy In German hands. A bid for the business is now being made by an English syndicate wito. a capital of £30.000, with three game reservations in Africa. The World' 3 Zoological Trading Company, Ltd., h2s just Issued a price list, which reveals interesting opportunities awaiting persons with a weakness for unconventional pets. Among the animals which may be bought are:— Price. Hippopotamus £700 •Rhinoceros "50 Giraffe "50 Chimpanzee 100 Lion 250 Striped hyena 25 African elephants (trained) .. 800 Pythons may be bought at from £2 to £100, "according to length." while a tortoise may be had at from £40 to £100, "according to weight." DUKE AND A LADY FRIEND. The strange adventures of an historle necklace, comprising nearly 100 pearls of tie finest lustre, are interesting Parisian gossips. The necklace, which wa? once a Crown jewel, and valued at over £100,000, is the property of a Spanish duke. Usually the necklace is kept In a strongroom at the duke's Paris bank, but occasionally the owner has lent It to a lady of his acquaintance to wear at brilliant receptions. Next day the necklace was regularly put hack in its case at the bank, but recently the dul;e, on visiting Ms cafe, foun,l the en?e empty. Letters to the fair borrower producing no answer , the dnke consulted his lawyers, who laid a complaint with the authorities. Inquiries showed that the lady in question l= travelling in Spain. She also rents a ?afe. but In her alienee it cannot be opened, so the authorities have sealed It up. Is [he necklace Inside? Such U the ' thrilling question to which Parisian society is awaiting an answer, d f THRICE MARRIED, TWICE h DIVORCED. a Karl Cow'ey ilied recently at his Wiltshire residence. Draycott Hor.se. He was 32 years of age. To the public the Earl 0 was mostly known through his frequent appearances in the Law Courts. His career in this particular may b° briefly summarised: — IS96 —Breach of promise; £10,000 '" jlamages. c ' 1597.— Divorced by his wife. I \W-. —Co-respondent; suit dismissed. II YtOTi. — Co-respondent; decree nisi. 191?,.—Divorced by his second wife. 1915. —Co-respondent: decree nisi. The Earl wa< three times married. Iα r |1889 to Lady Violet Nevill, daughter of the d i Marquis of Ahergavenny. who divorced. 'him; in 190." to Lady Hartopp, who had 13 been divorced by her husband, and who r ' subsequently divorced the Earl: In 1914 to [c Mrs. Buiton. who had also been divorce-1. i The new Earl, formerly Viscount Dai .ran, a ~ who is a son by his first wife, was born c - in 18!iO. For the last six months he has ,(1 been appearing in the farce •'You Never ld Know. Y'Know" at the Criterion Theatre. °- In 1914 he married Miss May PlckaTd, an !d American actress, and a son was born Is 11815.