DOCTOR'S TALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 80, 6 April 1926, Page 7

DOCTOR'S TALES.

MURDER CONFESSION.

45-YEAR-OLD THEFT.

NEW YORK, March 30.

: Dr. Osbaldeston, aged 9». who was arrested by a 91-year-old sheriff on a charge of horse-stealing dating back 45 years, tells a different story each time he gives evidence. He was asked to amplify a statement about having lost his wife in the Australian bush, when both were searching for the explorers, Burke and Wills. His memory was, however, befuddled on this

point. To-day's tale is that his second matrimonial venture was with a JCew Zealander, and that later he married a third wife in America. His confessions indicate a Jekyll and Hyde. nast. They include the killing of a, man in Germany, after a quarrel over

a woman,

SEEING FEELING.

PHOTOGRAPHIC MARVEL

WIRELESS AIDS

LONDON, March 30

Experimenting with a three-valve wireless receiver amplifying signals 2000-fold, the Lecturer in Advanced Physiology at Cambridge University, Professor *E. D. Adrian, has evolved an instrument for photographically recording messages travelling along the nerve centres to the human brain in the form of dots and dashes. Professor Adrian explains that, if ths slrin is pricked, each connecting nerve fibre transmits a message to the brain in a series of small electric oscillations, which it was impossible to detect before the use of wireless.

That cinemas and radio hypnotise the people is the theory of Dr. Isewsholme, Croydon's medical officer. "Aβ a person watches a film, in the darkness, with others concentrating on the same lighted object, or listens _to radio, impressions for good or evil sink into the sub-conscious mind, strongly influencing the- character," he declares.

CASTE BAR.

INDIA'S "UNTOUCHABLES."

AGA KHAN'S BEMEF

LONDON, March 30,

Tbe Aga Khan, who, according to a message from Nairobi (Kenya), is suffering from phlebitis, denies that it is his intention to spend £1,000,000 in converting India's 60,000,000 "Untouchables," or "depressed classes," who are outside the pale of Hindu society. He says: "I have always ardently believed in Hindu and Moslem unity, and believe that the sooner high caste Hindus accept the 'Untouchables' as caste Hindus th& better for everybody in India, irrespective of religion."

A recent cable message stated, on the authority of a report from Delhi, that certain of hie followers had proclaimed the Aga Khan (who is a direct descendant of Mohammed) as the new Messiah. They claim that he had sanctioned the proclamation.

FALSE TEETH BARRED.

FHILADELPHIA POLICE

PHILADELPHIA, March 30.

Because they might swallow them when excited, men who have false teeth will in future be debarred from becoming policemen or firemen in this city-'

The Public Safety Board came to this decision "in the interests of the wellbeing of the two Departments concerned."

An instance was cited of a policeman who ewallowed his false teeth, when in grips with a criminal.

The policeman had to be treated in hospital. The criminal escaped.

■In another case a fireman's denture slipped while he was battering down a door in a burning building.

The teeth stuck in his throat and he was carried from the building half6uffocated.

ONE BIG JOB.

CKURCHIZX BUSY.

LONDON, March 30,

Mr. Winston Churchill is selling his polo ponies, says tke "Weekly Dispatch," as he is unable to play now, his duties as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and especially adjustment of the national finances, requiring the whole of his time. He has been unable to finish his second book of war reminiscences, although it was two-thirds completed when he took office.

SPORT OVERSEAS.

ATHLETICS IN VICTORIA

MELBOURNE. April 5.

At the paster athletic carnival at Stavell the 130 yds race resulted: W. Allen (Victoria), 1; W. Mobbs (South Australia), 2; E. Eaton (Victoria). 3. Won by inches. Time, 12is.—(A. and K.Z.) , :