HEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LX, Issue 9723, 5 June 1924, Page 6

HEWS BY MAIL.

MAN REFUSED HAIL

AVANTED TO' GET- MARRIED

Emily Sugden, aged 94, and Les’ie Walker, afed 19 both of Bradford, w ere apprehended at an Uotnl n London last month, on suspi icn of absconding with £230, belonging to Raj old Clarkson, an income tax collector. The girl was charged n'lh stealing, and Walker with receiving iho money. Aliss Sugden did not appear in court, and it was s'a ted she h.d to- r. removed to St. Luke Hospital suffering from what is believed to he pneumonia. Walker asked if he could have bail, adding, “If possible I want to marry Aliss Sugden.’-' Hie prosecuting solicitor opposed bail, and it was refused.

SEA BURIAL BY SIGHT

CEREMONY NEAR BRIGHTON:

A hearse drove down -,o Hie beach at Ih.ghton one night in March at lusK. snipped, and a- leaden offm was transferred from it to a niotcr-ooat. A black pall and cross of _ white lillies were placed on the coffin, an engine purred, and the sleek boat swung round and slid out to sea under a stai;less sky with scarce a light or a sound to tell the manner of its mission. An hour later it slackened speed in nine fathoms of water, the plank on which the coffin rested was tilted, a prayer was whispered, and the leaden casket vanished in a momentary boil of waters.

Such was the burial of Mrs Cioeombe. a resident of Brighton, who died on Alarcli 23.

THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS. Shakespeare said this about the motor-car: ‘Tf I had such a tire!’’.—-Two Gentlemen of Verona. “IDs good horns.” —As You Like It.” “How the .wheels become it.”— Hamlet. “But you’ll not deliver it.” — Twelfth Night.” _ • “Stand from the body.”—Julius Caesar.

“Time shall teach me speed.’ King John. “I would not have any engine.”— The Tempest. “Rest up on the cushions.” —King Lear.

“Come to this gear. ” —Titus Andronicus.

“Had it all the worth of his car.” —Cymbeline. Shakespeare showed knowledge of motorists’ vernacular in “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” could drive this boatl”

KILLED YOUTH “FOR FUN.”

When the case of Paul Rapkowski, 12 years old, who stabbed and fatally injured William Clifford, jun. (13), was called in the Children’s Court, of New York, Paul walked up to Justice O’Keefe entirely self-possessed, folded his arms, and waited for the conversation to begin. Tfi e youthful prisoner admitted never having seen William before, and declared ho just wanted to sec “how sharp the knife was” when he stabbed him:

Neither of Paul’s parents was present, however, and Justice O’Keefe refused to continue with the case. He directed a patrolman to call at Paul’s home, 115, India Street, and summon tho hoy’s-father and mother to Court. Tho case was adjourned until the parents or an attorney could be found. William Clifford was walking along the street with his father when the knife was suddenly plunged into his "hack. He died an hour later in Greenpoint Hospital.

ELOPING COUPLE’S WELCOME HOME. Another caso has occurred in which the enforcement of American laws lias upset the plans of an eloping couple. A married man and a young girl left for America, travelling, it is alleged, as man and wife. At New York, however, they were refused permission to land. When the vessel reached Southampton the girl’s parents were waiting for her on the quay-side, while the man’s wife and her four-year-old son were also present. When the vessel was berthed a police officer served a summons on the man for.; deserting his wife. The man and the girl left the vessel together. As soon as he appeared a little chap shouted: “There’s my daddy,” and ran up to him. The man caressed his son, hut did not speak to his wife, who was greatly distressed and frequently burst into tears. . -

Whilst a brother of the girl was making arrangements for the party to return to London, the eloping couple left the docks.

A GOOD CATCH. Here is a simple trick which will mystify your friends. You announce to your audience that you can place a glass of water on a table, cover it with a hat, and then drink the water without removing the hat. This sounds rather impossible, doesn’t it? but this is how it is done. Stand a glass of water on an ordinary table, borrow a hat and place it over the glass. While doing this, talk, and emphasise' the wonder of the trick you propose doing, and say that oil no account must anyone touch the hat. Then get under the table and make a pretence of drinking the water through the wooden table. Everyone of course, is full of wonder; and, after coming from under the table, ask one of the audience to remove the hat to see if the water has been drunk or not. As soon as this w done, seme the glass and drink the water, and then announce to your surprised audience that you have done what you promised to do—namely, to drink the water without removing, the hat—someone else having removed the.hat tor you! t : ;