GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1932, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

ANOTHER CAPITALIST’S SUICIDE. (Ann. & N.Z. Fable Assn.) LONDON, April 29. Known as the “Razor Blade King,” Paul Keuhnrich, aged 70, a former siee] magnate, was found shot dead in the music room of his beautiful home at Sheffield. He recently executed a deed of assignment in favour of his creditors. He hoped to reconstruct his fortunes with rustless steel processes, for which h<> failed to raise capital. NEWFOUNDLAND POLITICS. ST. JOHN’S, April 29. Legislation to authorise the operation of lotteries in Newfoundland passed the House of Assembly on Thursday. The Newfoundland Legislature has also passed a Redistribution Bill reducing the number of electoral districts from 37 to 24, and the number of members from 40 to 27. The measure will be in effect at the general elections on June 15. LONDON BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, April 29. The Marylebone by-election, owing to Sir R. Rodds’ resignation, resulted: Capt. A. S. Cunningham Reid (Conservative) , .. 11,677 Sir Basil Blackett (Con.) . . 10,662 The by-.election was a curious contest, due to a local Conservative split. A section of the members of the Marylebone Constitutional Union thought that Captain Reid, who is a young and wealthy man, although he has been a member of the House of Commons before, had less claim to the safe seat in the national emergency, than a man with a long record of public service like Sir Basil Blackett, for whose support rival organisations were speedly created.

A MURDEROUS FEMALE. LOS ANGELES, April 29. Annoyed by a woman next door mowing the lawn, Mrs Ella Thompson fired at her, then when the police arrived, she shot a policeman dead through a glass door, saying that they had no warrant. Thompson then engaged thirty police in a revolver battle for two hours until they smoked her out with tear gas bombs. She emerged firing right and left, then finally fell dead to an officer’s bullet. WIFE MURDERED FOR MONEY. PARIS, April 29. After inducing a wealthy orphan girl to marry Armand Donnadieu, the latter’s family, who were rich, but miserly, began a campaign to get possession of the girl’s wealth. The discovery that the girl had become aware of an incriminating family secret in connection with an earlier fraud, hastened the plan, under which Armand strangled his wife, then suspended the body to a barn rafter to suggest suicide. Armand was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment, his father to ten, and his mother and a maiden sister each to five years’.