GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 74, 19 December 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

4 POLISH SURGEON’S CRIME MURDERS WIFE BECAUSE REFUSED DIVORCE A Warsaw message qays that a Pole named Kasprzak justifies murdering and dismembering his wife on the ground that he wanted to show what man can be driven to if refused a divorce. Kasprzak is a well-known surgeon, whom the detectives accidentally discovered with parts of a dismembered woman in his travelling bag. As his professional explanations were inconclusive the police made inquiries and found that his wife missing. The marriage had been an unhappv one, and Kasprzak had started a divorce suit, but lost his case. He accordingly killed his wife with a hatchet, and was taking the dismembered body to Warsaw for disposal. Police officers boarded the train and examined the passengers’ luggage for conti aband. and so found the dismem-* bered parts. There was not the least suspicion of the crime previously. Kasprzak. at the trial, -pleaded not guilty, saying that the Divorce Court was responsible for the crime. He was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Professors Masson (Melbourne) and Fitchett (Dunedin), and representatives of India, Canada, South Africa, Burmah, Hong Kong, and Alalta, presented, congratulatory addresses at the Leeds University jubilee celebrations. A London message savs it is understood that a meeting of the Imnerial Defence Committee has discussed further threatening letters received bv Viscount Allenbv and other British officials in Egypt. The Premier of New South Wales, Sir George Fuller, has announced that the Afatrimonial Causes Amendment Bill which sought to place a restriction on the Press publication of divorce proceedings, will not be proceeded with. In the House of Commons, in answer to Questions, Sir Rnmsav Steel-Alaitland (Alinister of Labour) said the membership of trade unions in Great Britain and North Ireland was 5,405.000 at. the end of 1923, compared with 8,336,000 at the end of 1920. —Reuter. It is learned on good authority, a Tokio message states, that I >r ’" co Chichibu is going to England on Alay 11. and that he is expected to spend two years there, part of the time as an undergraduate at Oxford. Afterwards he will visit European countries for further study. The Parramatta police have arrested a man who is believed to be identical with a man whom the police desire to interview respecting the murder of James Dwyer at Lithgow. The man was found sleeping in an old disused brick kiln, near Liverpool, and was much travel-stained. Af. Rakovsky. Soviet Ambassador, presiding at a jlinner to the Soviet Trade Delegation in London, reoposed the toast of “The King.” He afterwards said that the turnover erf trade with Britain in 1924 amounted to £26.000 000, including £5.000.W0 worth of silver for Russian coinage, made at the Royal Mint, and shipped to Russia. A Reuter message from Afoscow savs the British Trade Union Delegation, headed by Air. A. A. Purcell, have left for England. They were presented, prior to their departure. with addresses from the headquarters of the Soviet unions., expressing hope for the early attainment of the unity of the Labour movement. Following on the findings of the Royal Commission which inquired into the conditions at Kew Asylum, three of the attendants have been dismissed from the public sen-ice and three others transferred to another asylum, and Dr. Ellery has heen relieved of his duties in'the idiot asylum and, transferred to a junior position at another asylum, but without loss in salary. The manager-general of the Australasian agency of the Lloyd Sabando Line referring to the remarks of Sir John McWhae about Italian immigrants, savs that the only Italian steamers carrying passengers tq> and from Australia are those of the Lloyd Sabando Line and the Navigaziqne Generale Italiana. which run a joint service. The fares range from £36 10s. to £3B 10s. No deck passengers are now carried bv Itaban steamers trading to Australia, and th© meals provided a.re substantial. The. conditions under which the immigrants travel are set out by the Itaban Government Department of Immigration. Tho Italian Consul nt Sydney also denies Sir John AlcWhae’s remarks.