MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1927, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

QUADRUPLE MURDER. NEW YORK, July 29. A message from Jacksonville, Oregon. states that Hugh Dautremont, aged 23, has been found guilty of the murder of four guards through the dynamiting of the Southern Pacificgold special in Sisiyon Canyon, in October, 1923. The jury recommended that he be imprisoned for the term of his natural life. Dautremont was recently arrested in the Philippines. His twin brothers, Ray and Roy, 26 years old, who were arrested recently in Ohio, await trial at the same Court on the same charge, but the request of their counsel that a different judge should try them has been granted, in compliance with the Oregon State law. BRIGAND CAPITULATES. LONDON, June 25. The Sheik Mahmoud, who for three years was Irak’s most troublesome brigand, has at last capitulated, telegraphs the Bagdad correspondent of the Times, because the Mesopotamian branch of the Royal Air Force, co-oper-ating with ground forces, established a string of police posts along his routes. Mahmoud, who will recover his sequestrated property, undertakes to lead a quiet life and to send his son, Ali Baba, to a Bagdad school. SUICIDE AT PIANO. 1 LONDON, July 27. Having closed the doors and windows of his flat, Lawrence Murphy, an American artist in Paris, turned on the gas and sat at the piano and played selections from Choplin until he was overcome and died. TRANSPORT WAR. LONDON, July 27. There is a prospect of the intensive competition between road and railway companies being terminated by a world’s motor transport congress, that will be held in London at the end of the year. Experts agree that the public will benefit also, because the desertion of the railways has resulted in an increase in freights, which is strangling commerce and creating an intolerable situation which only co-operation can relieve. CATHEDRAL SENSATION. BERLIN June 26. During Friday’s evensong in Cologne Cathedral a youth attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself with a pistol. The cathedral was immediately closed and guarded, pending its reconsecration, which the archbishop carried out that night. REVOLVERS FOR AIRMEN. LONDON, July 27. The Imperial Airways, Ltd., has decided to arm the pilots of bullioncarrying planes with revolvers for use, if needed, in the event of h forced landing away from the recognised aerodrome. It is pointed out that the possibility of a machine being deliberately shot down by air pirates is most remote, but there would be a dreadful outcry if some unscrupulous adventurer shot down and plundered a machine. Thousands of pounds are conveyed across the Channel every week., CONFIDENCE TRICK. LONDON, June 25. Scotland Yard is scouring London for a gang of 20 expert Australian and American criminals, headed by a middle-aged cosmopolitan Irishman nicknamed “Professor Pat,” which recently secured £3OOO while operating in fashionable restaurants and resorts. Last night two members of the gang made the acquaintance of an American in the street and tricked him with the old story that they wanted him to assist in the distribution of a fortune, but that he first must hand over a few thousand dollars to prove his financial stability. JUBILANT MOTORISTS. LONDON, June 25. Hauled by a rope up the grand stairs case of the Savoy Hotel last night, S. Davis and .Dr. J. Benjafield, who had won the International 24-houts Grand Prix motor race in a British 3-litfe Bentley car, steered the victorious racer, still dusty, greasy, and dented, into the banqueting hall, where they were the guests of the motoring press. ACTOR DIVORCED. LONDON, July 27. Margaret Tithoradge was granted a divorce from Dion Titheradge, the Australian actor, on the ground of his misconduct with Madge Stuart, at Weybridge last year. The parties had been married at Sydney in October, 1909. Petitioner was granted the custody of the two children of the marriage. PATIENT SHOOTS'DOCTOR. NEW YORK, June 25. A message from, Indiana, Pennsylvania, states that seven years ago a doctor treated John Ammonian, a crippled miner, saving his life and enabling him to walk again. Yesterday the miner hobbled into the doctor’s surgery and complained that his former pain had come back. The doctor offered to take the man to the hospital for Xray treatment. On the way Ammonian shot the doctor through the brain And then shot himself. . • BROUGHT TO BAY. NEW YORK, June 24. A message from Grand Canyon, Arizona, says that Mathew Kines, a notorious bandit and escaped murderer after a gun fight with a posse of cowboys, was given the alternative of leaping over the canyon precipice or surrendering. He choose the latter. Kines has an extraordinary record. Among his early crimes was the seizing of a car in which was a baby passenger. He returned the baby, and when accosted by a policeman he kidnapped him.