NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 23

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

BLIND GIRLS SEE. Two mountain girls, blind since birth, walked from a Huntington hospital and marvelled at the wonders they gazed upon. Their sight had been restored, a Christmas gift from their mountain neighbours and a Huntington surgeon. DYNAMITE KILLS THREE, Three miners were killed by a dynamite blast in the Sheldon copper mine at Walker, Arizona. The dead are Joseph Cavanaugh (27) Adelarde Lueero (27), and Enrique Adarnarillo (43). The blast, thought to have been caused by a premature- explosion of blasting material, occurred in the north drift on the SOOft level of the miue. POOH AIM FOILS SUICIDE. Because his aim was poor and his gun small, L. W. Voglesaug, of San Francisco. is alive. He is said to have left his room at Terminal Hotel, Oakland, walked to the -Mountain View Cemetery, and while seated beside the grave of hla daughter, Mrs. Lola Martin, attempted to bring an end to his loneliness. He was found there and taken to hospital. A CHEROKEE MURDER. Edward Fllckinger (IS), son of a farmer living near Washta, in Cherokee, U.S.A.. accused Gertrude Weaver, a young school teacher, of firing the shots that killed Morris Hardy, in a signed confession. Miss Weaver was arrested. County officials are Inclined to discredit the confession and place the responsibility for the shooting on a three-cornered love affair. EX-CONVICT CONFESSES. John Steinert, ex-convict, of Milwaukee, confessed that he killed Roy Tolzmann, eight-year-old boy. Steinert, in a written and signed confession, said that he took the boy to the hay loft of a foam on a farm near the city limits, that he attacked the child, and when Roy screamed, he said he choked him to death. "After coming to myself and realising what I had done, I became frightened and set the t>arn on fire." he wrote In the confession. KISS CAUSES CRIME. On various charges arising out of the investigation of an alleged assault on Robert Tiffin (22), of Dresden, Canada, five men, said to be menVbers of the Ku Klux Klan, were committed for trial by Magistrate Brldgewarter, fajjoiwlifj their preliminary hearing on Thursday. A kiss, which Tlffln was claimed to have stolen from a Dresden girl, is at the bottom of the trouble. Klansmen, It is alleged, paid a visit to Tiffin at his boarding house on December 1 and, as a result of the Incident,.an assault followed the interview. SCENES AT FUNERAL. There were unpleasant Incidents at a funeral at Wembley of Mrs. Evans, wife ot a local tradesman. A crowd of women gathered round the graveside and talked while the service was proceeding. They w,ere rebuked by the Rev. J. S. Douglas, who was officiating. One of the mourners collapsed and had to be supported at the graveside. As the mourners left the burial ground women gathered' at .the entrance anfl booed. Mrs. 'Bvans died in hospital after a fall, and the verdict at the Inquest was death from hemorrhage. WOMAN STOPS THIEF. Donald McConnell (51). a man of independent means, of Bayswater, was fined £5 and -£5 5/ costs at the Marylefrone Police Court for stealing a wallet, value 14/, from a West End shop. Miss Dufour, a detective, said that McConnelJ first placed a newspaper over some diaries. He then put It on top of the wallet, and shortly afterwards picked up the paper and the wallet and walked away. She held his arm, and asked him for the wallet. After a struggle lasting about five minutes, in which three men joined, McConnell's hand was forced out of his pocket, and gripped in it was the stolen wallet. BABY SAVED FROM FIRE. Two families escaped In night attire from a fire which broke out In a shop in Victoria Park Road, South Hackney, London. With, their nine-days-old baby and nurse, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman occupied rooms at the back of the shop. Escape through, the shop being cut off by the flames, the family had to get on to the flat roof above the shop and from there Into adjoining premises. On the next floor were Mr. and Mrs. Jessener. They dropped from their bedroom window on to the roof of the shop and followed the iFreeman family. The fire, however, was confined to the shop. PLANES COLLIDE. The glare of the winter's sun in the eyes of an R.A.F. pilot is believed to have been resonsible for an air disaster over the aerodrome at Mans ton, Thanet, resulting in the death of one man, wfrile another was seriously injured. The occurrence took place at a height of 750 feet, when the tips of the wings of two single-seater service machines, which were flying together, were seen to touch. and they both came down. One of the pilots, Lending Atr-Crnftsmnn Edward Emanucl Dunn, was picket! "P dead from the wreck of his neroplane while the man in charge of the other machine, LeadIng Air-Craftsman William Edward Parrish, was taken to Ramsgate Hospital, suffering from severe injuries to his head and one of his legs. Both pilots were 23 years of age, and were unmarried.

CHURCH TOWER COLIAFSB. The North-east corner of the picturesque West 'Barkwlth, Lincolnshire Church tower, which Is mainly 14th century work, crashed, and a large quantity of stone fell through the roof of the nave, wrecking a number of pews. The Octagonal font escaped damage. EARL HAIG'S COUSIN. 'Earl Haig's cousin, Colonel John Halg, of Windsor Forest, was driving his car Into Ascot, when it collided with a car belonging to "Mr. T. Upflll, of Woklngham, driven by his chauffeur. Both cars were considerably damaged, but no ono was seriously hurt. SEDAN BANDITS. Bandits who use a sedan lv their operations have appeared in Vancouver. There was such a holdup In tie East End of the city. John Basslale complained that while at the rear of his home two men, one ot them armed with a revolver, steppod out of a sedan in the lane, robbed him of 1* dollars, and then drove hurriedly away. GAOL FOR GRAB-AND-RUN THIEF. Arthur Saunders (19), clerk, was sentenced to three months in the second dlvitlon at Greenwich for bag snatching and other thefts. Ho was alleged to have stopped women by tapping them on the shoulder, and then snatching their bags. Hβ then ran away, and ttio empty 'bags were found in tramcara. FATAL SHORT CUT. At Burton-on-Trent, Mr. T. B. Audcn (Coroner) recorded a verdict of "accidental death" In the case of Samuel Percy Wlietton (17). In order to cross the lino Whetton endeavoured to pass under tlho wagons ot a stationary train, but before ho could rcncU the other side tho train was set In motloa and Whetton's right leg was crushed by one of the wagons. CONVICT'S ESCAPE. James Trail, of Brooklyn, serving a KVyear sentence for burglary, escaped from Sing Sing prison after overawing a new Veeper by threatening to shoot him anil then bluffing another keeper with the same threat. "Warden Lawes declared he never saw "a worse exhibition of a man losing his nerve than the action of Keeper W. L. Murphy." Lawes suspended Murphy at once. MASK OF DEATH. Madame Emout, on returning home, wae horrlfled to see hanging from the baunlstere the body of a man, wearing a weird carnival mask. The removal of the mask revealed the face of her husband, who had been threatened with blindness, and who apparently had used the mask to hold In position a pad soaked In chloroform, in order to escape the death agony when he hanged himself. PRACTICALLY PICKLED BY SPIRITS. A verdict that death was due to the effects of alcohol paralysing the heart wae returned at an Inquest at Shrewsbury, Oα William Edwin Edwards (SS), a retired assurance correspondent, wfho was found dead on the floor of his bedroom. Dr. MacLeod said death was due to tho effect of alcohol causlnK paralysle of tho heart. lie thonpht Edwards was practically pickled by spirits. DEATH FOLLOWS SLIGHT INJURY. An Inquest was held at Smeth/wlck, on. Daniel Ward (03), of 12, Market Street. The widow stated that her husband was employed as a labourer by Guest, Keen and Nettlefold, Ltd. He went to work on November 20, and returned later In the dny complaining of pains in the arm. Hβ ealii he had got some "swarf" In his hand at the works. It was a slight cut, but blood poisoning was set up which tuded fatally. Verdict accordingly. PISTOL GIFT FOR MR. COOK. Mr. A. J. Cook, who had been addressing meetings In the Durham coalfields, said at Sacrlston. that he had received a Colt revolver containing a bullet nnd an Instruction to kill himself. "I shall choose a better way than that, ,, he said. "Never aguln will the miners strike alone," said Mr. Cook. "We have the Alliance, and, although the Xational Union of Railwaymen are not at present in It, they will be. Keep your powder dry. Wβ shall want It." DEATH FROM SCRATCH. A verdict of "accidental death" wat returned by the WaJlsall Coroner, Mr. J. F. Addlson, on Philip Arthur Jones (11), son of a butclior, of Bluxwicu Road, Leamore. The lad fell whilst sliding In the playground at I<eamore Council School, and some days Inter complained of his right wrist, on which there was a hoaled-un scrntoh. As his arm wiis swollen, he was tnken to Wullsall Hospital, where ho dlod from blood poisoning, with pleurisy and inrnlnyiiis an <i secondary cause. FARMERS' "RAG," A Cunibrklt.'e "ratr," this time not by undergraduates, but by farmers, took place In tue university town. The occasion was a snle of goods seized by the bailiffs of Ouse Drainage Board for the non-pnyment of rates In Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Concertinas, whistles, children's trumpets and songs by a large band of farmers prevented the auctioneer being heard. A pony, one of the lots, was decorated with the Union Jack, and when It wae led from the stable a betting ring was formed to shout the odds. Eventually the auctioneer had to retire, defeated. DOCTOR LOSES RACE "WITH DEATH. A dramatic race with death, lost by a n nour, was run by Dr. Roberto Gonzalez, oC Nicaragua, a graduate ot Columbia University Medical School and the son of Dr. Pedro Gonzalez, formor Nicarasiinn Minister, who died In Washington lately of uraemle poisoning. Trnvelling by rail, horso, motor boat, automobile and steamor. young Dr. Gonzalea made the trip in nine <lnys, although he wns held up by storm's nn'l ebb tides, anil pursued by swnrrns of mrwiimtopo. He was unable to catch tie nlgbt train at New Orleans for Washington. 1 Arriving, at 8 o'clock, he went at once to Garfleld Hospital, only to learn that »" father had died peacefully an hour before, _ as his nurse was giving hlma <Wnk •» water.