NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9670, 17 April 1923, Page 7

NEWS BY MAIL

DYE, .TO TEST DEATH,

: BLUE THREADS THROUGH SKIN j THAT TURN YELLOW. I A remarkable new means of making certain that death has ensued has been discovered as a result of progress ;in chemical analysis by means of dyes.

By the change in color of one of these dyes it is stated to be possible to make a conclusive test of death. Colored threads stained with a blue dye are threaded through the skin and. left there for an hour and are then withdrawn. If the blue color has changed to yellow it may be taken, says the inventor, M. Silvio Rebello, to prove death conclusively.

1922’s BRAVEST MAN

MIDSHIPMAN’S DIVE

j For the bravest deed of 1922 Mid- ! shipman Peter C. Hutton, R.N., was awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal and a silver medal at the Royal Humane Society’s meeting. } Hutton was serving in H.M.S. Raj leigh when she went ashore on the : coast of Labrador in a thick fog last j August. j A cutter was lowered to try to get ■ a line to the shore, but capsized in j the breakers, and eleven men were \ swept away and drowned. j Hutton was able to reach the rocks, ! where ho was in a position of comj parative safety, but seeing a seaman i named Herbert R. Reynolds being | rapidly carried away in the heavy I seas, he plunged in and after an : heroic struggle succeeded in reselling ■ the man, who was drowning in deep I water.

1 KNOCK-OUTS. "w. j _ LIVELY SCENES IN KINEMA , EIGHT. ! / j .There were kudek-outs every few • minutes at the National Sporting I Club recently. Both boxers and audi- ! ence were actors in a kinema play : produced by the Samuel Son Film Com--1 P au y. j The idea of the play was that a j negro boxer (who has been a sparring ' partner of Soldier Jones) knocked out I a white man in the person of Bex ! Davis, the film actor and boxer. Mr ] Eugene Corri, the referee, was told 1 exactly how he ought to behave in a ; film fight. Wearing an elaborate * make-up, lie was instructed to/ wave | his arms, elevate his eyebrows, stamp 1 his foot, and behave generally like the | villain of melodrama. * I The director showed the fashionable 1 audience hoiv to act. Shouting through ■ a megaphone, he said, “This .is where | you get excited. Watch the punch. | Look into each other’s eyes. Grip ■i shoulders. Show interest.” And they ; did.

I The principals fought much harder ’ than ordinary prize-fighters, because j when the producer was not satisfied I with a knock-out he insisted that it should be dene all over again.

BABY KILLED BY CATS

1 SUFFOCATED WHILE LYING IN

PERAMBULATOR

j A remarkable story of a baby’s sufj focation b} 7 cats was related at an j inquest at .Boxweil, near Chelmsford. I The baby ivas James Stacey, the tenI weeks-old son or Mr Norman Stacey, of Roxwcll. I‘ Mrs Stacey left the child asleep in i a perambulator in a porch at the t house, and during her absence two j farm cats jumped on to it and lay on I the child’s face. ; When the mother returned for the ; baby she saw the cats jump off the ; perambulator. The child was in a state : of collapse and died before a doctor ; who bad been called could reach it. 1 Dr Henry said there were marks ■ of muddy cats’ paws on the baby’s • face, and also on the pillows in the * perambulator. j Death was caused by asphyxiation, | due to the cats lying on the child. J A verdict of accidental death was : returned.

A STRANGE BABY

DOCTOR'S STORY

AT SOUTH-

WARE INQUEST

; A remarkable baby was described !at a Southwark inquest when Dr i Waldo inquired into the death of j Beatrice Alice Roberts, the five i months’ old daughter of a carman, i The child, when born, weighed 4Mb. ! It died after a fit of coughing, j Dr Harris, assistant house surgeon, j said the case was of very great in- ; terest. The child, though small, was i healthy and well nourished. It had ! club feet, the toes and soles being I turned right in. The bones of the I knee-caps were absent. Witness had j never seen such a case before, and he I could not account for it. There was ; a double spine in the lower lumbar ; and upper cervica regions, and there Was a natural curvature of the spine. ; The left' kidney was absent but the i right one was enlarged and did the I work of two. 11l the spine there were several . wedge-shaped vertebrae. Death was due to heart failure from bronchial, pneumonia of both lungs. A verdict of “death from natural causes was recorded.

MAXIMS OF INDUSTRY

Lord Leverhulme, speaking at a luncheon in Manchester, gave his hearers a number of maxims for business men and all engaged in industry. Some of them were:— I have known a customer wait in a queue in a grocer’s shop to be served by a man with a smile.

If wo leave the human factor out of our business calculations we shall he wrong every time. There are only two classes of workers, whether office boys or directors—those who do their duty and those who fail to do it.