HARD TO KILL

Evening Star, Issue 21785, 30 July 1934, Page 7

HARD TO KILL

DETERMINED AMERICAN MURDERERS Three men were executed last night at Sing Sing Prison for the murder of a social derelict named Mike Malloy—- “ Durable " Mike Malloy, as he came to be known from his survival of five of their six attempts to . murder hjm (writes the New York correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ on June 8). They were an , undertaker, the proprietor of a “speak-easy” in the Bronx, and a fruit dealei, and they had murdered Malloy in the hope of getting the 1,500 dollars (£300) for which they had insured his life. There was a fourth man ,i the plot, a chemist temporarily working as a bartender in the “ speakeasy.” lie, too, was to have been executed last night, but he was reprieved for a fortnight until his mental condition could be determined. Malloy was a frequenter of the “speak-easy.” a cadger for drinks. .Not suspecting that any attempt would ie made to kill him, he fell readily into the plan for insuring his life when he was promised free drinks without limit. The plotters began by plying him with poisoned liquor. All it did was to make him a little drunker than usual. Then they gave him oysters poisoned with wood alcohol, and he seemed to thrive on them. Almost in despair they stupefied him with liquor and drove a taxicab backwards and forwards over his prostrate body. After a few weeks in hospital be was as lively as ever. They then gave him sardine sandwiches filled with chopped tin, and he was grateful. Turning for a time to another drunkard in whose pockets they put papers identifying him as Malloy, they ran a taxicab over him, too. But he also survived. They went back to Malloy. They made him drunk again arid drugged him. They stripped him bare to the waist, poured water over him, and loft him out-of-doors all night in winter to get pneumonia. In the morning he had not even so much as a cold. So then they hired a room, and, carrying him there when be was unconscious from drink, they held a tube from a gas jet in bis mouth until he was dead beyond question.

1 THE SHARE MARKET

DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE Business was brisk for the_ opening call for the week, though sales of gold mining stocks predominated. Very slight alterations were recorded in the quotations for banking and insurance shares, and in the shipping section 28s was offered for Huddart, Parker preference shares without eliciting a seller. P. and O.’s had improved inquiry without response, and Union Steam Ship preferences were a little easier. Broken Plill Souths were wanted at 74s without a seller, and New Zealand Drugs were for sale at 78s, following reported business at 77s 6d. A buyer of Dunedin Brewery shares advanced 3d on last week’s offer, but still no seller appeared. In the gold mining section both the Cromwell flotations commanded keen attention without much change in the market. Bendigo Goldlighls recovered a little. Big Rivers were fractionally firmer, but otherwise no further change was noticeable. There was the usual strong demand for Government Loans. SALES. - On ’Change.—Bell-Kilgour, 4id; Brian Boru, Is 6d (four). Reported—New Zealand Drug*. £3 17s 6d; Southland Frozen Meat (ord.f, £3 11s 3d; Big River, Is Id; Bell-Kilgour, 4|d; Woolworths (Sydney), £3 3s 9d. After Call.—Bell-Hooper, s)d; Nokomai, 3s sd.

DIVIDENDS DUE. Smith ant] Smith preference, 5 per cent To-morrw East A -n Coffee—pref., at rate of 7 per cent. ... ... ... To-morrow Farmer and Co. Ltd., Sydney—-half-yearly, Ist prof., 6 per « cent,, and 2nd prof., 7 per cent, per annum To-morrow Union Bank final, 3s Aug. 1 Trustees and Executors Co., Melbourne—final, at rate of 6 per cent per annum ... Aug. 2 Auckland Gas —interim, 6 3-5 d ... Aug. 2 .V./.. Insurance—final. Is a share and bonus of 6d a share ... Aug. 7 Commercial Bank—final, 3d (ord.l and 4s (pref.) Aug. _9 Farm. Fertiliser- annual, 5 p.r. Aug. ?2 and pref.l Sept. 7 Electrolytic Zino—final, 9sd (ord. and pref.) ... ... ... Sept. 7

Quotations as undOr :■ Buyers. Seller* £ s. i i. £ ft. d BANKING— Bank of Australasia .. 11 18 0 , Bank of New Zealand 2 5 6 —y Bank of New Zealand. Long " D ” — 1 14 6 Commercial Bank ... , 0 15 4 0 15 7 E.S. and A. Bank ... 4 18 0 — National Bank of Australasia (cont.) — 6 2 0 Union Bank of Australia Ltd. — 4 9 19 0 Reserve Bank — 6 5 3 INSURANCE— 1 National Insur, Co. 0 19 7 N;Z. Insur. Co. ... 3 1 6 — South British Insurance Co ... 4 0 0 — Standard Insur. Co. 3 4 6 3 6 0 SHIPPING— Huddaft, Parker (pref.) 1 8 0 — P. and 0. Deferred Stock ... 1 1 6 '— U.S.S. Co. (pref.) ... 16 0 1 7 6 COALKaitangata Coal 1 0 9 1 1 3 Westport Coal, Co. ... 0 19 0 — Westport-Stockton (pref.) 0 4 3 ' 0 4 7 LOAN AND AGENOYGoldsbrough, Mort ... — 1 10 0 National Mortgage ... — 3 1 0 National Mortgage , (“ B ” Issue) — 1 12 0 N.Z. Guarantee Corporation ... 0 4 3 — Trustees, Executors, and Agency 3 8 0 — Wright, Stephenson (ord.) — 0 19 9 Wright, Stephenson (pref.) ... —* 1 0 6 MEAT PRESERVING— N Z. Refrigerating (paid) ... 0 13 3 0 18 11 N M. Hetngeratmg (cont.) — 0 8 ,5 Southland Frozen Meat (paid) ... 3 10 0 — South Otago Freezing 6 0 q — u 1SCELLANE0US — Broken Hill South ... 3 14 0 Bruce Woollen Co. (ord.) 0 10 6 Bruce Woollen Co. (pref.) 1 1 0 — D.l.C. (pref.) I 4 0 — Dominion Fertiliser ... 0 17 9 0 13 6 Dominion fertiliser Debentures 104 0 • Dominion Rubber ... — 1 9 9 Dunedin-Kaikorai ! Trams 1 16 0 — Dunedin Stock Exchange Proprietary - 2 0 0 — Dunlop Perdriau Rubber 0 18 3 Electrolytic Zinc (pref.) ... 1 13 9 1 14 6 Kaiapui Woollen (ord.) — 0 11 3 Kaiapoi Wcollen (pref.) 0 19 0 1 1 0 Milburn Lime and Cement 1 12 6 — National. Electric 0 5 6 N.Z. Drug Co — 3 18 0 N.Z. Farmers’ Fertiliser ... ... ... 1 1 0 N.Z: Paper Mills ... 1 10 6 — ‘ Otago Daily Times ’ 2 9 0 — Regent Theatre — 0 19 6 Smith and Smith (pref.) ... ... ... 0 17 0 — BREWERIES— . Dunedin Brewery 1 6 0 - OIL— 1 Moturoa (ord.) - 0 3 4 HOLD MINING— Aotearoa C 0 7 Bell-Hooper 0 0 5 0 0 6 Boll-Kilgour 0 0 44 0 0 4J Bendigo Goldlight ... 0 0 7 0 0 84 Big River .... ... 0 1 0.1 0 1 Brian Boru 0 1 5' 0 1 64 Central Shotover 1 ... 0 0 8 0 0 l! Jhaneston 0 1 0 0 1 3 Gillespie’s 0 1 10 0 1 114 ■ olden Point 0 0 1 0 0 24 .olden Progress 0 1 1 iolden Sands 0 3 0 foldfields Dredging ... 0 0 10 0 0 11 Glenroy 0 1 1 0 1 3 - vildare 0 2 0 0 2 3 ling Solomon 0 3 9 0 4 0 Lawson’s Flat — 0 0 5 Mahakipawa 0 0 9i o 0 10.1 Mahakipawa (pref.) 0 0 11 — .1 o«inIi”lit, Nelson Creek .. ■ 0 0 6 Nevil Diesel 0 0 4 Now Cornish Point (paid) — 0 0 94 Nokomai — 0 3 7 Okarito — 0 8 4 Oxcnbridge — 0 0 10 Skippers 0 0 7 1 0 0 84 Waitnhn 0 4 9 0 5 2 Sandhills — 0 0 6 i.Z. GOVERNMENT LOANSBonds quoted aro £100 i Bonds ■ ) 5j |).o Stock. i938106 10 0 Ji p.c Stock, 1939 1913 106 10 0 34 n.c. Stock i911 1945 106 10 0 ii p.c Stock, 1 938 19o2 106 10 0 31 p.c. Stock, 1939'1952 106 10 0 5J c. Stock, 1941106 10 0 4 p.c Bonds, Jan 15. . 1940 105 0 0 . p.i Slock. Jan 15, 1940 105 0 0 1 p.c. Bonds, Feb 15. 1946 107 0 0 t p.c. Stock, Feb. 15, 1946 107 0 0 — 4 p.c Bonds, April 15. 1949 106 15 0 , 4 p.c Stock, April 15. 1949 106 IS 0 4 p.c. Bonds. June 15. 1955 107 0 0 4 p.c Stock, June 15, 1955 107 0 0 —