NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 25

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Through a roll of linoleum failing on him whilst playing, a six-year-old Derby boy was killed. Brynmor Jones, a boy, of Glamorgan, has won 227 prizes, Including 20 silver cups and five gold medals In vocal competitions. A jockey fifty-five years old rode at Newmarket on Wednesday. He is William Warne, who rode a great deal in Germany in his prime. Warne had not ridden in public since he won on Starflower in 1919. LIFE RISKED FOR CAT. Attempting to catch a cat which had strayed on to the roof of the Corn Exchange, Manchester, Ada Hamilton (40), a cook at the adjoining Exchange Hotel, fell through the glass dome to the floor 50ft below. / She was admitted to hospital In a critical condition, with injuries to the spine and skull. SET HIMSELF ON FIRE. George Henry Thomas, a Nottingham miner, aged 39, returning home on a Saturday the worse for drink, and finding his wife out, poured paraffin over himself and setjiimself on fire. He died a few hours afterwards from his Injuries. The man, who was married to a war widow, had been suffering from depression. CAT AND DYING MISTRESS. In a ward of a North London hospital •an elderly woman, who had recently undergone a serious operation, expressed a desire to see her cat, which, she said, had "been her only companion for some years, and a Persian cat was brought into the hospital. It almost seemed as animal knew the serious condition of Its mistress, tor having rubbed its head affectionately against her arm, it curled up at the bottom of the bed. Shortly after midnight the woman passed peacefully away and the cat was allowed to remain on her bed to the end. j FATALLY STRUCK WRONG MAN At Pontypool, George Walker (53), collier, charged with feloniously killing William Thomas Jones (59), was committed for trial. It was stated that Walker and another man had words in a public house. Walker was asked to leave. A few minutes later he.struck Jones a blow with his fist, and Jones fell to the ground. When arrested Walker said, " All I say is I struck the wrong man. I am very sorry. Poor old Tom. He was a friend of mine." The medical evidence was to the effect that there was only a slight scalp wound, and that death was due to rupture of an aneurism of the aorta, due to the shock of the fall. LAST-MINUTE BAN ON WEDDING, Owing to a father's last-minute refusal to give his consent, a wedding arranged to take place at Bishop Auckland, Durham, had to be cancelled. Shortly before the time arranged for the ceremony, the father told the minister that he was not prepared to sign the I necessary document on his son's behalf. The prospective bridegroom. rushed off to a solicitor, but was told that nothing could be done then as he was under 21. At the bride's home preparations had been made for the wedding, and a cab was waiting to take the girl to the church. y CONCERT MANNERS;. Leonard Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned the tables on those of the audience who have, been in the habit of arriving late and leaving before his concerts have finished. When the curtain rose on the stage only two violinists were In their places, and Stokowski then came to his desk and conducted, the other players entering singly later. Two pieces were played subsequently by the whole of the orchestra, who then went off the stage in pairs, leaving Stokowski to conduct an imaginary orchestra.' Some of the audience hissed, but others applauded. ZEALOUS EMPLOYEEMISJUDGED. A firm of sports goods manufacturers applied at the Walsall Police Court for the withdrawal of a warrant against Harry Owen for breaking Into a factory and stealing a motor car. It was stated that Owen, who was employed by the firm, was due to motor into Wales on March 8, but to save time left a day earlier. He entered the factory with the caretaker's key to obtain the motor car. The firm applied for a warrant, but soon orders began to arive In great numbers, and the real state of affairs was made clear. The magistrates said that a warrant was 1 * a serious process, and they adjourned the application for a week. FATAL EXCITEMENT OF A PATIENT. The struggles of a big man while under an anaesthetic at Charing Cross Hospital. London, were described by a woman doctor at the Inquest at Westminster, on Frederick George Thomas (59), a theatrical dresser, of Regent's Park, who was admitted to the hospital for the purpose of an operation for the removal of a growth in his neck.' Dr. Dorothy G. Parsons, resident anaesthetist, said the excitement of the patient was so great that lt took her 12 minutes to get him under ether and chloroform. He was a big man, and lt required the efforts of three people to hold him down. The surgeon had only commenced when Thomas gave three gasps and his heart stopped. He was completely under the anaesthetic but had exhausted himself before the operation started. Everything was done to save him, Including heart massage, but without result A verdict of "Death by misadventure" was recorded.

Human hair is worth 18/ to 160/ ncr pound, according to the colour, it was stated at Clerkenwell Police Court. Chased by forest keepers at Chlngford when he was discovered bird-catching, a man named Bampton collapsed and died. A new ticket machine on the Underground Bailways in London will print, number, date and deliver at the rate of five per second. ATTEMPT TO MURDER FATHER. On a charge of attempting to murder her 73-year-old father, Mrs. Clifford, of Rhode House, Sittingbourne, was arrested -recently. On the previous day her father, Mr. H. It. Tonisett, hearing a noise in his garden at Stockbury (Kent), went out. The sound of shots was heard, and he staggered back wounded in the chest to his house, on ■the doorstep of which he collapsed. Mrs. 'Clifford, who is 46, is well known for the garden fetes held at her house for charity. SICK FAMILY SAVES FROM BURNING HOME. Three wells were pumped dry in an unsuccessful effort to check a fire which destroyed three houses in the Dorset village of Warmwell, near Dorchester. Exciting scenes accompanied the rescue of the ocupants. In one of the cottages three men who were saving furniture were trapped in a blazing bedroom. Barely had they been dragged to safety through the window than the roof fell in. A woman and three children, all ill in bed, were in another of tha cottages. They were brought out unharmed, BABY IN A PORTMANTEAU. An appeal to the mother of the month-old. 'baby boy left in a Gladstone bag on the doorstep of the Homeless Children's Aid and Adoption Society, 93, Westminster Bridge Boad, on April 8, Is made by the' society. They add:—"Baby is under loving care and recovering from Its trying experience. It is important that the 'mother's full name and address should be obtained if she is desirous that the soeietr should help and befriend her child. Information from any person able to throw light upon the parentage will be helpfuL" OLDEST WOMAN IN ENGLAND DEAD. The death took place in Oldham Workhouse, where she was the pet of the Institution, of Mary Ann Turner, aged 109. Reported to be the oldest woman la England, she had been In the workhoust nine years. In 1923, when the master of the Institution took over his duties, he saw 1816 as the date of her birth on the bedboard and had it crossed out, thinking there must be an error. On investigation, however, the date proved to be correct. "Granny" Turner, bom the year after Waterloo, thus lived through Napoleonic times, the Industrial Revolution, Chartist movement, Crimean War, Indian Mutiny and cotton famine. In 1923 the old woman broke her leg, but made a complete recovery. GIRL'S DEATH FALL. An inquest at Portland failed to solve the mystery of the death of Doris Yendole, 19, of Portland, whose body was found among the rocks at the foot of cliffs 200 feet high. Mrs. Rodwell, the girl's mother, said her daughter was keeping company with Lance-Corporal W. S. Adams, of the Buffs Regiment. She thought the girl must have been upset about something, although she had no worries and was always happy. William T. Dunford said he was passing 15, Hambro Boad on Monday night when he heard a girl crying out. Questioned by the coroner, Adams admitted that he was with the girl In her home, but denied that there was anything wrong or that she cried out. The coroner said he was satisfied there was no evidence against Adams. "It Is a curious story," he added. " I shall take no responsibility beyond recording that the girl died from injuries received through falling over the cliff." GANG LEADER AT TEN. Breaking into a works pavilion and taking beer. Breaking Into a partly finished house and taking the lock off, painting the doors, and smearing the walls with paint. Breaking into Denbigh Road Schools and stealing a football. These were among the alleged explolte of a ten-year-old boy who was brought up at the Juvenile Court, and remanded for a week with a view to being sent to an institution. Chief Constable Scott said the boy supposed to be the leader of the gang had been sent away, but defendant now seemed to be the " boss," and leading boys of seven and eight into trouble. His father stated that he was beyond hie control. The evidence of the caretaker showed that the school was placed in danger by boys. In their search they struck eight boxes of matches and left charred paper about everywhere. BOY'S SUICIDE BECAUSE HE WAS CHAFFED. "My dear friends.—l have poisoned myself because those I live with are always on to mc because I belong to the Salvation Army; not only those at home, but those whom I work with. I am not insane, and I know just what I have done. So goodbye, Jim." This note was left by James Edward Hawes, an 18 : year-old errand boy, of Sterndale Road, Battersea, London, who died from poisoning. At an inquest the coroner said Hawea must have been unduly sensitive. He seemed to imagine that everybody was laughing at him because he had joined the Salvation Army. "So far from It being a snbject to chaff a person about, It Is a matter for congratulation that an earnest boy shonld belong to such an admirable body," the coroner added. "Suicide while of unsound mind," wae the verdict. WOMAN IN EVENING DRESS IN DOCK. Wearing a stylish green evening dress, jewellery and a fur. Vera Bower appeared In the dock at Willesden Police Court, charged with ohtaining expensive clothes ■by fraud. It was stated that she stayed at West End hotels for a day or two and obtained clothes and furs by means of worthless cheques. A warrant was issued for her arrest, and on the previous day she visited Willesden Police Court, where an officer recognised her. Before she could be arrested, however, she locked herself in the ladies' waitingroom, and after-vainly endeavouring for an hour to get her out, tbe police had to take off the lock of the door. A good deal of the clothing was found where she stayed, but some of the garments she was wearing. The evening dress was the only gowa not claimed, and it was therefore the onl/ one «fee was allowed to keep. She was remanded in custody.