NEWS FROM ABROAD.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5536, 19 July 1920, Page 7

NEWS FROM ABROAD.

A GREAT RELIEF

“Of course I’m sorry, but I must say I experienced a great relief after killing my wife.” Such was the statement made to the police by Harry Joseph Orr, a youth of 19 years, following his arrest on a charge of having murdered his bride of four months at New Haven, Conn. On September 21 Orr married Miss Margaret Kosko. One night she left home to go to a party. He followed her, saw her meet another man, and shot her.

KILLING NO MURDER. Accidental killing of a man is not murder if he insults your wife, according to a court decision in Chicago. Joseph Manne, a diminutive songwriter, was freed of a charge of killing Travers Walsh, a soda clerk, who made a profane remark as he passed Mrs Manne on the street. Walsh died from a fractured skull, sustained from a fall on the sidewalk when Manne struck him on the jaw with liis fist. “I dont blame you for taking a wallop at a man who used such language in your wife’s presence,” said Superior Judge Stewart, who dismissed Manne.

HAIR-CUTTING BALD HEADS. Some hairdressers at Denton, Manchester, where hats are manufactured, are displeased because their association has increased the charge for hair-cut-ting from 6d to 9d, and that for shaving by Id. One hairdresser stated that he is making enough money on the old charges and does not want to profiteer. Another objected to the new prices on the ground that baldness is so prevalent in Denton that a hatter’s hair can be cut in a quarter of the normal time. A hatter, appealed to on t-liis point, said there are more bald heads in Denton than in any other town. Hatters, he said, are always donning new hats, and their hair cannot stand the strain they wear hats so continuously tl'.aX. their hair suffers from lack of fresh air.

A “WIDOW BRIDE.” Women in Florida, California and Chicago are describing Mrs Helen Prindiville Griffin Bastado as “the WidowBride.” The hyphen between the two marital states is represented by a legaev of £2,000,000 inherited from her late husband, whose death occurred less than 24 hours before she married again. Mrs Bastado was formerly the wife of Mr George Francis Griffin, one of Chicago’s wealthiest men, who on a Monday in a yacht near Miami, Florida. On the Tuesday Mrs Griffin, who had been separated from her husband for two years pending a divorce action brought by her, married Lieut.-Com-mander Paul Henry Bastado, U.S., Navy, of San Diego. According to the announcement of the attorneys, administering Mr Griffin’s estate, his widow s marriage will not affect the provisions of the will, which leaves the entire estate to her and her three children. The marriage preceded Mr Griffin s burial.

LEAF OF FOURTEEN STOREYS. While being examined by officials of the Department of Justice at New 1 ork in connection with the bombing outrages of last June, Tony Tazio threw himself out of a window on the 14th storey of a building in Park Row, opposite tlie City Hall, in the heart of the business district. According to the Department of Justice, Tazio had confessed that, he had taken part in the anarchist plot of last June, when attempts were made to destroy the house of Mr Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney-General, at Washington. and that of Judge Nott at New York, two persons being killed. Tazio s suicide has revealed for the first time that* any important arrest had been mado in connection with the outrages. It appears that Tazios real name was Andrea Salsedo. He was a printer by trade, and admitted to the police that he printed the pink circular at the time of the June outrages. The Government has other evidence, probably ’sufficient to establish the case against the conspirators.