NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 28 August 1926, Page 23

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

A sow which had become Infuriated by the heat attacked a party of mourners as they were returning from a funeral by a footpath near Llanbedrog. South Carnarvonshire. The party ran along two fields before the animal, and plunged waist-deep into a river, which they crossed to safety. CHIMNEY SWEEP LEAVES £3700. Mr. Arthur Clayton, of Eoberttown Lane, Liversedge, Yorks. a chimney sweep, and member of the Spenborough District Council, who died last April, left £3717. MAN'S LIFE FOR CHXLD. When overtaken by a 'bus in Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, Patrick Milmoe, a youna man of Newton St. Patrick threw a cliilil he was carrying into safety. Hut the 'bus knocked him down, and lie died short , .: afterwards. KICKED TO DEATH. At an inquest on a Shinebrook (Derbyshire) iron merchant, George Woodward, 50, It was stated that his skull was battered in by repeated kicks from a horse after he had become entangled in the reins. The horse was stated to have been galloping madly. A verdict of accidental death was returned. MLLE. DELYSIA'S RING. At Fontainebleau the police are seeking a diamond ring, worth £2000, lost by Mdlle. Delysi... the actress. Mdlle. Delysia was spending a holiday at Arbonne, and laid the ring for a moment on a table in a public room o her hotel, and forgot it. Missing it later, she went back for it, but it had vanished. it SHOT ON THE SPOT." The British Consul at Cheng-tu (Upper Yangtse) reports that on June 8 Miss Manly, an American, was dragged from a rickshaw by an unarmed Chinese, who apparently tried to strangle her. Miss Manly was rescued, slightly injure! As a result of the Consul's representations, the authorities proclaim that any Chinese found molesting foreigners will be shot on the spot. CAUGHT A WHALE While fishing for mackerel a few miles off Hastings, some Hastings fishermen had a desperate fight with a whale which had got caught in a net. After a long struggle they succeeded in hauling in the net, and found that the whale was 17ft long and weighed 14cwt. A huge rent was torn in the net. The fishermen proudly displayed the whale in the town during the day. TO PREVENT SUICIDE. The number of suicides in Budapest continues to alarm the public, and M. Rakovszky (Minister of Interior) has decided to make every effort at least to reduce the number of these deaths from drowning. Life-saving tations are to be erected on the banks of the Danube, within the radius of the city. There will be a service of motor boats patrolling the river and a corps of guards to watch the banks and bridges day ~nd night. A first aid station will be fitted up near the Danube. In addition to these measures, the rowing clubs and bathing establishments will be compelled to install life-saving apparatus at their own expense. A BRIDE'S VAIN 'WAIT AT CHURCH. After waiting at church for over an hour to be married. Miss Jennie Elsie Lilian Taylor, of Cambridge, learnt the tragic news that her fiance, Mr. Edgar E. Gainger. of Chertsey, had been tilled on the previous day, through falling in front of a train at the Bank Station, London. Mr. Gainger, who was 40, met Mi* Taylor during the war, when, as regimental quartermaster-sergeant, he was attached to a cadet school after serving in France. Miss Taylor was 26, and the -wedding would have taken place some time ago but for her mother's illness. Her bridal bouquet of roses was placed on her fiance's grave. BOY ELECTROCUTED IN A BATH ROOM. ■How 12-year-old Jack Whitaker, son of a Bradford wool merchant, was electrocuted in the bathroom in his home was described at the inquest. After repairing a radiator in the bathroom, a member of the family did not properly replace the mica washers and porcelain brushes, so that a live wire came in contact with the framework of the bath. and anyone touching the radiator with his foot would get a charge of 230 volts through the body, sufficient to cause death. The boy was fornid in such a position as suggested that this bad happened. A verdict was returned accordingly, the coroner pointing out the danger of amateurs repnirinz electrical apparatus. For the loss of a finger £251 damage* wera awarded at Essex Assizes to Herbert Staines. a young farmhand, against Mortou Cook, of Halstead. who was motor-eyclinp and knocked Staines A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE. At the annual conference of th« College of Nursing in London there was exhibited a doll dressed exactly as a baby should not be dressed—with a cape and hood of thick clcth. long robes, red flannelette undergarments, and a comforter. An official of the college said properlydressed modern babies never wore long clothes. "In many cases, at quite an early age." she explained, "they are put Into little woollen suits. Why. I have seen babies of a few weeks old in tiny woollen knickers. "But some misguided mothers think Lhey should wrap their babies up in as many clothes as possible." Thore was also an exhibition of little clay models of objects condemned as "carriers of flispase." They included uncovered milk pails (which attracted flies), a patchwork quilt, a thjgk hearthrug made of pegged I cloth, and closed windows.

PIANO OUT OF RELIEF. It was stated of a mau In the SonthwarS County Court that he had been on continnons relief for sis years and had been pajins 4/ a week for a piano on the hire purchase system out of the ratepayers' money. " JAZZ " IN CHURCH. A jazz band played in All Saints' Church, Blackpool, at the wedding of a Brixton, couple, Mr. Edward Holman and Misa Winifred Barratt. Mr. Holiuan is a saxophonist in the band at the Blackpool North Pier. Bride and bridgeroom left the church under an archway of saxophones. WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. At Leeds Assizes, Mary True (21), single, a domestic servant, was found guilty of murdering her twelve months old baby by throwing him into the River Aire from. Victoria Bridge, Leeds, and was sentenced to death. The jury made the strongest possible recommendation to mercy. EVE—THE ANGLER. A " secret " that every woman shares was revealed at Bow County Court by a witness who declared, " The woman who doea not angle to get married has yet to be born." In the same court a debtor who seemed disinclined to make an offer to pay was asked if he would like to have a look at the outside of Brixton prison "to see whether he would like the inside." FORGER AGED SEVEN. A seven-year-old and ten-year-old sister have been arrested by the Teronto police and charged with forging the endorsement on a cheque for 50 dollars (£10). The boy, with his sistur's help, stole the rheque from the mailbox of a block of flats, and after forging the endorsement went to the bank. There the couple succeeded in securing the money, which was spent on fireworks.

A FRACTURED SPINE. At an inquest at Walsall Wood on Samuel Dingley (35). a miner, it was stated that on March 2S, 1923, there was a fjill of coal at Walsall Wood Colliery, and Dingley sustained a fracture of the spinal column. Dr. J. Steward said it was extraordinary for a man to live so long after so serious an injury. Death was due to septicaemia from an infection of the bladder, the direct result of the accident, and a verdict yeast returned accordingly. BOY CLUTCHES BUSH IN CLIFF FALL. Selecting a spot close to the edge of Beaehy Head for a ball game with a friend, a London boy on holiday at Eastbourne, Leonard Archibald Jefferies, of Grove Road, Camberwell, tried to stop the ball as it was going over the cliff and slipped and roil. He had dropped, more than 150 feet towards certain death when he managed to clutch a bush. This supported his weight while his friend ran to tbe coastguard station. A coastguard was lowered over the cliff and brought Jefferies safely to the top. WOMAN'S FINGER PRINTS AFTER DEATH. It was stated at-a Poplar inquest on a woman whose body was found in the Thames, at Elackwall, that aftor dt-ath hnr finger prints were taken and forwarded to Scotland Yard. As a result she was identified as Edith. Mary Webster (32). the wife of a captain in the R.A.F., stationed in Iraq. Mr. Travers, in reply to the coroner, said that the system of taking finger prints after death of unknown persons had been in force for five or sis years, but this was the first occasion in which the identity of a dead person had been established by that means. An open verdict was recorded. i DUNMOW FLITCH WINNER. Because they had a difference of opinion on the previous evening—for the first time since their wedding day—one of the thn-e married couples competing for the Dnnmmv Flitch, annually awarded for marital happiness, withdrew from the trial shortly before it took place at Ilford, with Mr. T, P. O'Connor. M.P?, as judge. The remaining claimants. Mr. Alfred Robert Arnold, 79, a retired lithographic artist, and Mrs. Arnold, of 7, Wentwortd Road, Manor Park, E., and Mr. Sidney R. Wood, a mechanical engineer, and Mrs. Wood, of 13, Clarissa Road, Shadwell Heath. E., gave such evidence of happinese that a flitch was awarded to each. MOTHER OF THREE EXECUTED. Mrs. Louie Calvert was executed at Strangeways Prison. Manchester, for the murder of Mrs. Lily Waterhousc at Leeds on April 1. She was the first woman hanged in England since the execution of Mrs. Thompson in 1923. Mrs Calvert, who was 33, had three children, and saw her baby son for the la.st time on the Tuesday preceding her death. Her husband, with his sister and six-year-old boy Kenneth, whom the condemned woman had asked specially to see, had a farewell interview The little boy, unaware of the tragic circumstances of the visit, remarked : "t have come a long way in the 'puff-puff' to see my mummy." BREWER FINED FOR THEFT. Clifford William IVnree. 44, described us a brewer, was fined £•"! or 21 days' imprisonment at Brishton for stealing pr"p»rry from a house ie Dorset Gardens, Brighton, where he occupied a room. He pleaded guilty, and a Mr. Wood. >>t Ileirfipld, retired bank manager, stated that Pearce came of a good family and nas brought up under a certain amount t<Z luxury, hut in 1017 he suffered finaii'-inl adversity. Witness had always thought him straight and honourable, but perhaps a little weak. Mr. Shelman. of a firm of London ?ol!"1----tors. s.iid he maaazed I'earee's family affairs for some 13 years, and was p':> sonally acquainted with him. Pearop was receiving £- a week, partly Ms own money, partly nviney sup;>ii"'l t>y relatives, and his rnnt was paid. MURDER OF 38 YEARS AGO. Continual scenes in the family of a North Moravian widower recently culminated in a tragfdy which is Ilkcij tv :■ id to strange developments. The man's twonty-five-yar old dauirUl'T, attacked by her father with a hoc. sci/'-0 a pitchfork and stabbed him in the hi.d, whereupon hs> lost '■•■ns'ioii«n<'<s. 'I ho girl was arrested, nnd in thp rour>e i f il.e Inquiry d>-«-!:ir>'d th;.t her mother had • ;i her deathbed ri-vraled that thir:y-.i. it years ago her husband had murdori'd hU own'father. He was nrr'-ft-rl at the time and submitted to an imiuiry. but via released fur want of evid>'nr.\ It has now Wn ascertained that the man also cmfcsiii d the iiiunl-r t" a fri.-n.l. And if he survive hit irjuri.-s he will he triPd for patrkide committed nearly furl/ years ago.