POLICE REINFORCED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 281, 27 November 1930, Page 7

POLICE REINFORCED.

Steps to Suppress Sydney's Armed Robbers. GANGSTERS SENTENCED. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Chief Secretary, Mr. M. Gosling, referring to the number of recent robberies by armed men,-said that all the members of the police force possible would be made available for active duty. Those employed 011 clerical duty would be relieved in order to take up outside service. Fourteen men have been arrested in connection with armed robberies. Four members of one gang were sentenced to four years and three members of another to three years. DEATH SENTENCE. YOUNG VICTORIAN MURDERER. (Receive*! 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Herbert Donovan, aged 18, was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Little, a widow, and was sentenced to death. Tlie jury made a recommendation for mercy on account of the prisoner's youth.

Mrs. Little was found murdered outside tlie cowshed of her farm near Stratford, Gippsland, on October IG. Her handstand leg 3 were tried with rope, and there was a gash in her head. A youth was seen by a domestic driving away in a buggy shortly before she discovered the body. She said that he had been behaving like a lunatic, urging the horse to all possible speed. As he had taken £15 with him it was thought that robbery, and not jfissault, was the motive for the crime. Some days later Donovan was arrested at Stratford. DESERTER MONK. PASSIONATE LOVE OF MUSIC. HOLLYWOOD, November 20. A scant 15 months ago Father Francesco Magliocco intoned High Mass from the altar of New York's greatest Italian church, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Mass over, he quietly folded away his priestly vestments and vanished. With him vanished a tall and slender beauty of his choir, the brunette Antoinette Motta. To-day in the white glare of a Hollywood studio the mystery of the vanished priest and the beautiful choir singer was solved. Father Magliocco was revealed as a.musical director, who has been a Hollywood cinema sensation for the last few months. The man the movie world knew as Francesco Magli, inspired composer of the score for a forthcoming music drama, husband of the brunette Signora Antoinette Magli, and father of an infant child, admitted that he was the former priest. When Father Magliocco disappeared it was reported that lie had quarrelled with the diocesan authorities over their failure to appoint him as musical director of St. Patrick's Cathedral. "I did not quit the: Church because of the love of a woman," he cried, excitedly, "I left 'because I had rcachcd the conviction that it was all wrong for me to follow a priestly life. I love music; I wanted to devote my entire time to it. At last I could stand it no longer. Now I am free, free; and for the first time in my life I am happy." WOMAN INDICTED. CAST FROM POLITICS. LONDON, November 17. "Women are not good at tli~ 'rough stuff'; therefore, they are useless in politics," is the decision of the National Socialist party in Denmark. "They lack the brutality necessary to do anything effective." Consequently, the party aims at excluding women from public li'fo altogether. There is worse than that. Their participation il politics has demoralised the men, who are becoming more and more effemminate. The only remedy is to cast out the women.