WORLD TRAGEDIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 June 1926, Page 5

WORLD TRAGEDIES

NOTED ACTRESS SHOT,

DRURY LANE REAL LIFE DRAMA

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

LONDON, June 18. Mademoiselle Regime Fiery, the noted French actress, was discovered shot dead in her room in the Drury Lane Theatre. LATER— Mdlle Flcry, accompanied by a woman friend, entered the theatre and conversed with an official regarding an engagement which she was anxious to secure in a forthcoming production. Later, a shot was heard, and an attendant found Mdlle Fiery lying on the floor wounded in the head, with a revolver alongside her. HOUSEHOLD SLAUGHTERED BERLIN, June 17. A whole household of seven persons was wiped out at Dortmund. A drunken unemployed butcher, named Blaschewski first attacked and killed with an axe his sleeping wife and his three children. Then he went to another room and killed a lodger. Dropping the axe, he fatally attacked the lodger’s wife with a razor, and finally committed suicide. There were. many onlookers, but they were afraid to intervene.

U.S.A. RAILWAY DISASTER.

NEW YORK, June 17

Twenty-three were killed in the Pittsburg railway smash. When the Washington express stopped, a trainman went back half a mile, and posted a red flare, thus fulfilling the regulations. After the collision, the flare was found still burning. How the two engine drivers, both of whom were killed, passed the flare, is a mystery. BALCONY COLLAPSE. ■ ' ROME, June 18. Capt. Padovarni, the founder of Fascism in Naples, was addressing a crowd in celebration of “Our Birthday,” when the balcony on which he and his friends were standing collapsed, precipitating them into the street. Captain Padovarni and eight others were killed, and five were seriously injured. STOVE EXPLOSION. PERTH, June 18. The women killed in the explosion near Bunbury were Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Adkins. Mrs. Holt senr., who was the mother of the husband of one of the women killed, succumbed to her injuries, bringing the death roll to three.

It appears that a number of gelegnite caps were placed in an old stove for safe keeping, and Mrs. Holt junr.. being unaware of this, lighted a. fire in the stove causing the explosion.

MAORI BABY DROWNED.

GISBORNE, June 19.

Thomas Ratapu, aged two years four months, whose parents reside at Kaiapoi, was found drowned in a well at Tokomaru Bay yesterday afternoon.