NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 187, 9 August 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

L!FE SENTENCE FOR BOY. George Dauiecki, aged 15, was saved from the electric chair after having been found guilty of first degree murder in New Jersey. With two older youths, Dauiecki battered a man to death with a piece of iron, after stealing £1. At the trial the jury recommended him to mercy, and the judge imposed a life sentence. WAR RELIC IN ENGLAND. Children playing in a field at the rear of the premises of Messrs. Pilnioie-Bedford and Sons, motor engineers, in Bromley , Road, Catford, found a bomb. They took if to Mr. Pilmore-Bedford, wlio handed it to the police. It was an unexploded German bomb which apparently had been dropped from an aeroplane. TASTE IN SOUVENIRS. American tourists on a recent Mediterranean cruise spent £15,000 on souvenirs. Mr. Herbert G. Weiss, cruise manager of the Caigaric, made this statement when he left _ Southampton for America on the White Star liner Homeric. Brass work from Damascus, Persian rugs, jewellery and antiques from Egypt and holy relics from Jerusalqm, finoludiing olive wood Bibles and crosses, he said, find most favour. BEDSIDE SERVICE. An ex-soldier, gravely ill, wished to be confirmed by the Bishop of Durham. The Bishop travelled 30 miles, and arrived in full vestments at the home of Mr. Walter Forster, at Brussels Street, Gateshead. Mr. Forster, who was wounded and gassed in the war, had been seriously ill for ten months, confined to his bed. The service was carried out to the great gratification of the sick man. TRAPPED BY CHILDREN. Children played a part in the arrest of a car theft suspect in Islington. They gave the alarm when a man was seen to jump into a car, and a motor cyclist took up the chase. The car, however, knocked down the cyclist. A mounted policeman joined in the pursuit. A man jumped out of the car and was at once surrounded by hundreds of excited children who had also joined in the chase. DANCING—A DUTY. "Dancing brings immense benefits to the health of the young and the not-so-young," said Mr. A. Pearce, of London, president of the National Association of Teachers of Dancing. " Dancing," he declared, " has ceased to be the pastime and the privilege of the few. It is the social necessity of the day. Most doctors agree that there is no finer form of exercise during the winter, when exercise is so difficult to obtain." £16,000 "TIPS" CLAIM. After nine years' service in a Bordeaux restaurant a waiter brought a suit for £16,000 damages against the proprietor. The allegation was that, although the pro-prietor-abolished tipping in the restaurant and paid the staff fixed wages, he added 10 per cent to the bill for " service," which he did not turn over to the staff. The Court accepted the plaintiff's contention in principle, and three accountants examined the books of the restaurant to determine the exact amount which could be claimed. TERROR OF THE CLIFF. Two schoolboys, Teddy Lewis and Evan Jones, played a gallant part in the thrilling- rescue of a school friend at Barry (South Wales). Charles Webb, aged 12, was playing with them when he fell over a 150 feet cliff. He managed, however, to cling to the stump of a tree about halfwaydown, and his two friends, descending at a spot where the cliff was less steep, clambered along the side to him. Immediately they reached Webb he fainted, but the two boys succeeded in holding him, and eventually dragged him to safety. A THREE-DAY GAME OF BRIDGE. Robert 8. Landstreet, insurance company adjuster, " sat in a bridge game for three solid days and made enough to keep him a year," according to a statement made in the Supreme Court, New York. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Landstreet, of New Rochelle, applied for alimony and counsel fees in a separation action begun by her on the grounds of cruelty and abandonment. The wife's attorney, in asserting that Landstreet had other income.besides the 3800 dollars paid him by an insurance concern for. which he has worked ten years, characterised Landstreet as a past master in bridge, well known at exclusive clubs in New York. JAVELIN WINS FOR CUPID. Cupid's dart has become a javelin and pierced the heart of pretty Miss Minerva Jones, graduate of the University of California, who revealed a month or two ago that since January she has been the wife of Emory Curtice, former University of California track captain and holder of the American inter-collegiate javelin record. The Curtices were secretly Aved in Tijuana, shortly after their engagement had been announced and plans made for a wedding this summer. The pair slipped across the border when Curtice, coach of a California basketball team, made a trip south.' His bride was teaching school in T-a.it, and after a basketball game in the valley city, they hurried away for the wedding. BOUND MAN IN THAMES. The body of an elderly unidentified man was recently taken from the Thames at Teddington Lock. The man's legs had been tightly tied, and there was a wound in his throat. A bottle was found in one of his pockets. A search of the towing path resulted in the finding of a knife. Nothing was found on the-'body except a receipt for £1 dated December 29, 1929, made out to someone with the initials "0. T. R. S. C." A laundry mark "H. 33" was found on the man's collar. A post mortem examination revealed that the man died from the wound in his throat and not from drowning. The body had only been in the water about an hour. TOMTIT STEALS CASH. The disappearance of money from a private letter box at the entrance to a Wiltshire farm was lately traced to a tomtit. Mr. Walter Lewis, the fanner, used to place money in the box with the letters when he had no stamps. Tomtits have often tried to nest in the box, but the material has always been removed. Recently a sixpence, a penny and a halfpenny and four farthings were missing from the box. Mr. Lewis watched, saw a tomtit busy going to and fro, and on opening the box the coins were missing. Close search failed to reveal the tomtit's safe deposit. It was thought that the bird objected to hard cash in a site for a nest.

SIXPENNY LIMIT. 1 " These seem terrible stories—' Daring i Diana,' ' Love the Outcast,' and ' Passion r of Youth,'" remarked Mr. W. B. Luke, a i London magistrate, "when a boy was £ charged with stealing novels. The' Shop* s keeper: They are not nearly so bad as tha c pictures on the covers indicate. Anyway, you can't get anything very bad for (3d. GIRL SHOOTS LOVER. | A Paris midinette, Georgette Hodot, J shot dead in a chemist's shop in Mont* ' martre, the man who had abandoned her ' to marry another woman. When the man, Isaac Eichisky, i wealthy young dia--1 mond broker, entered the shop the girl 1 pleaded wdfch him to return to her, but he told her to leave him alone. She thereupon fired two revolver shots, killing him instantly. ; CANON'S MYSTERY DEATH. , Remarkable evidence was given at a , Brasted (Kent) inquest, when an open '. verdict was returned on Canon George ; Herbert . Whdtaker, 83, formerly of , Woughton Rectory, Bletchley, whose body was found in a pond in the grounds of . Brasted Rectory. Rev. E. V. E. Bryan, rector of Brasted, brother-in-law, said the canon was afflicted with a bitter religious depression, and had a delusion' that he was the incarnation of wickedness, ■ whereas he was one of the best men living. ! FIRE STOPS HOLIDAY. Sixteen guests at the Cranmore residential hotel, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London, lost a considerable amount of . property in a mysterious fire which destroyed the annexe to the building. A city man lost Treasury notes to the value of £30 which he had left in a drawer. A woman secretary to a 'firm of sfcock- . brokers, who was to leave that night for , her Whitsun holiday in Paris, said "Now ; I cannot go, because all my new clothes , have been burned, and I have only what I stand up in." CAT-EYE ANNIE'S RUSE. ■ Lillian McDowell, a prisoner known at "Cat-eye Annie," recently enjoyed seven hours of freedom from the Auburn Gaol, New York. She had staged a sensational break-out from the women's section of the > State Penitentiary. "Cat-eye Annie," who - is an expert jewel thief, was clever enough , to dodge the vigilant eyes of the guards ' when she had donned Warden Heacox's : overcoat. So clad, she calmly walked out > of the front gate of the prison. But she : was soon missed, and before nightfall she j was brought back. It was her third . attempt at escape. RAGGED MAN'S MITE. Miss Lilian Baylis, manager of the Old Vic, speaking in London, said that only - £6000 more was wanted to start Sadler's ' Wells. " Already we have £7000 towards • it, all raised, with the exception of a • grant from the Carnegie Trust and £1000 • from a friend, in small subscriptions, which bring a funny, tight feeling to my throat. Two girls, for instance, brought ■ me £3 saved up by degrees in half-crowns, and an old man, literally in rags, brought ■ me 10/. I couldn't bear to take it; but i he begged me to, because of the happiness he had gained from his seat in the gallery at the Old Vic." "A MURDER ARRANGED." " A murder has been arranged, and will shortly take place in the dungeons -at Wittou Castle." So ran an invitation issued by Lady Chaytor. Her aim was to 1 help the funds -of the Witton-le-Wear Nursing Association. The invitation card ; bore the representation of a dagger, and • a note: —The object is to find the murderer ' by following a trail of clues "he • leaves - i around the countryside. The hunt takes ■ place in cars, and finishes at the King's Head Hotel, Darlington, where sausages and mash and beer may be obtained if desired. A prize was given to the first discoverer of the murderer holding all [ the clues. ARMY'S OLDEST OFFICER. A notable figure in the British Army was removed by the death of Colonel Osmond Barnes. He was 96, and was thought to have been the oldest officer in the junior . service. _ Colonel Barnes was a survivor of the Indian Mutiny, and had been the only officer of Hodson's Horse Regiment (which became famous during the rising) to escape with his life. He was 6ft 6in in height, largely for which reason he was appointed , Chief Herald of the Indian Empire, and in that capacity, in 1877, he proclaimed Queen Victoria as Empress. Afterwards, Colonel Barnes went through the Abyssinian Ex- » pedition and the Afghan War. WELL CAUGHT. Alarmed by shouts for help coming from the top floor of a block of flats, a bookbinder's assistant, Andreas Kovacs, of Budapest, rushed to the balcony of his flat on the third floor, i Leaning over the parapet, he was just in time to clutch the'f ailing body of Miss Margarte Pribuez, who threw herself froni the balcony overhead. When Kovacs dragged the girl to safety, he was rewarded by a resounding box on , the car. ■ Margarte protested with indignation against his undue interference in her private affairs. She happened to be a highly-strung girl who, after a violent quarrel with her mistress, had determined to revenge herself by a spectacular "tragedy." OARLESS LIFEBOATS. The Fleming .patent lifeboat has scrapped its oars altogether. In front of each passenger there is a straight up and down lever which' lie or she operates as easily as a child work's a toy motor car, and thus contributes to the motive power operation of the propeller. A demonstration, which was recently given at the Royal Albert Docks, was witnessed by •an immense crowd of people. Boats getting away from a ship's side by means of oars offered an example of smart work hy experienced men under difficulties when compared with the handling of the Fleming lifeboat with a crew mainly composed of girl typists. In the absence of oars the boat's seating capacity is increased by 50 per cent. JENNY'S ESCAPE FROM THE ZOO. "Jenny," a Rhesus monkey at the London Zoo, enjoyed teasing an old friend. She was recently installed in new quarters in the large outdoor enclosure which successively has been used as a cage for vultures, lynxes and , coatis. When she lived in a small mammal house, two years ago, Jenny used to be allowed: to, lift ,the latch of her cage and go out into the public portion of the building. Profiting by this experience, she managed to open the door of her new quarters and it is evident that memory, led her to her former ■home. For she sought out a mongoose named "Billy," whom she used habitually to tease and, once again, indulged in her old tricks. Jenny did not need to be caught, for she came to her one-time keeper and was glad to be caressed by him. LOVERS DIE TOGETHER. A warning against "sentimental" verdicts was giveu by a Worcestershire coroner at an inquest on Charles Edward Jackson (27), of Tipton, and Gertrude Moore (32), of Dudley. It was stated that the man and woman, who were married, and who both had children, had become attached to each other. Their, mutilated bodies were found on the railway -Jme as Dudley Port, with a note on £*«**JJ u-ritlen "Death if not.happm«■ bi«de them The coroner' said: that often cp male'the sorrow of the relatives easier to W furies expressed the opinion that ueai, Juiwb «££ ... • ]ives m gueh errmind -[n the nSt"case it could not be pleaded that ' r, eTwas « double brain-storm, especially Is the couple vaulted a five feet toghfew? . Sd[ WiStf» message. V«*ei: A IMo do so. JSM