UTE MAIL HEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1920, Page 3

UTE MAIL HEWS.

POISON MYSTERY. PARIS, March 8. Arrested several months ago on i charge of forgery, an insurance agent named Girard lias now been further charged with having poisoned several persons. His wife and a woman friend named Doueteau are accused, of complicity. Toxicological experts have been analysing the poisons which Girard is alleged to have used, and many of them, it is said, date back in criminal records to the time of the Borgias. / Two specific cases are. cited in the indictment. Mine. Monin, a widow and a friend of the Girards; died shortly after her life had been insured for a large sum. The ifteusntion maintains that she died as the result of drinking a glass of tonic wine in which had been placed the poisonous extract of toadstools. This glass of wine, it, is stated, was given her at Girard’s, house. M. Pernotte, another alleged victim, also insured, died as the result of having swallowed typhus bacilli. Roth toadstools and tubes of the typhus bacilli, it

is aliened were discovered the posses sliion of tiie prisoner. ' BANK-NOTE PAPERCHASE. BERLIN, March 8. 3 A paperchase in which .£760 in liani< 3 notes was thrown away occurred in til ’ heart of Berlin’s busy West End a " noon yesterday % A woman had drawn £1,200 in note ’ at the bank. A man who liad seen lie ' put the money in her satchel followei her into . the street and there snatches her bag and ran. i The old woman’s cries started a mini her of passers-by in pursuit, but ai they were catching him up the tliiel threw a handful of bank-notes at them Most of tlie pursuers; stopped to pick them up, and the chase continued, the hunted man again and again staving of! capture by abandoning more booty. Two policemen now joined in the hunt, and against them the thief drew a revolver and wounded one severely. The other policeman overpowered him. The old woman got back only £450 of her £1,200, the rest Having found its way. into the pockets of strangers. “ GIRL WHO SHOT HER STEP- '■ FATHER, PARIS, March 8. Mile. Guvonne Malliary, a pretty young girl of good family, was acquitted yesterday by the Versailles Assizes of having murdered her stepfather, M. do Jarcy. Mile. Malliary’s mother several years ago was divorced by her first husband, ail, Malliary and tlien married M. de jarcy. The second marriage did not prove much happier than tlie first, as M. de Jarcy was of a violent temper, and there were fiequently very painiul incidents between him and his wife. Mile Malliary on several occasions inicevened between her mother and her sLep-lather, who on occasions when he had drunk too much had threatened to hit her. Finally M. de Jarcy said he would separate from his wife and take with him his fuur /little boys. Apparently .Mine, de Jarcy sent her eldest daughter to protest. Mile Malliary, who hqj always been of a highly-strung disposition, seized her stepfather’s revolver and shot him. Explaining what had happened, MIH-. Malliary told her judges yesterday that quite, by accident she found the rqvo,vur. "Jf did not know what 1 was do,ngl Some strange attraction took me downstairs to ihy stepfather’s study, and then the next thing I knew he was Lyipg dead before me. I swear 1 dul not mean to kill him.” ' '(he jury, after three minutes’ Win Deration returned a verdict of Not Guilty, GODDARD WINS. " LONDON, May G. Alter being out-fought in the eaily part of his 20-rounds boving contest with iEddie McGoorty at the Holborn Stadium last evening, Frank Goddard improved as the fight'went pp. He knocked his opponent d»wu three times in thq 'pill., and 13th rounds, and theq tlie' referee stopped t-he contest and gave the Englishman the decision, Goddard, .whfi \yas supposed to he big slow, apd clumsy, wafted on McGoorty until be had got him down to that point where years begin to count. McGoorty boxed with great shill and there were oe casious when ho looked like winning with ease. But the farther he went the more ho discovered that Goddard could not Ire hurt. For the first two rounds Goddards looked the veriest novice., for by. seemed incapable to' leading apd pffprpd hut a very moderate, defence pi his opponent s attache, After that, however, he boxed with, qioro confidence and in the fourth round lie jabbed the American three times with the left. For a time McGoorty did all tlie real boxing there \ynji, Goddard being slow of thought, and action. But he still remained very strong, and kept working away at close range with uppercuts and digs, which weakened McGoorty, who did a fair amount of holding. Once Goddard was cautioned for hitting low. Til the eleventh and twelfth ty got home twice with fliy right to the jaw, but then Goddard landed heavily several ipuies with the left. McGoorty went down twice, the bell saving him the second time, and then in the thirteenth, when he went down again, the referee stopped the contest uud awarded the verdict to Ogddard, McGuorty boxed well and hit hard, hut could not hurt Goddard, who was very strong. REAL HF,LLSv

LONDON, March 9. The range and variety of the “spirit” messages which the Rev. G. Vale Owen, vicar of Oxford, Lancs, states he has received are increasing with each Sunday’s instalment in “The Weekly Dispatch.” Manv people’s ideas on the subject of the darker regions in the after-life will have to be revised after a reading of the messages, That there hells—very real and very grim is stated with a wealth of detail. But that there is utter hopelessness for those therein is throughoutdenied. According to the messages, a .man, continuing on “the other side” from the stage of development he had reached on earth, may at death find himself advancing towards a more splendid life or

descending towards a more restricted and gloomier one. That depends entirely upon his own acts. The increasing range of messages is shown by an important contribution dealing with the creation and working oi tiie stars; how and by whom they are controlled and how their light conies to us. Another glimpse of the Suinmerland in which she works and learns is given 1 from Mr Vale Owen’s mother, whose j messages describing “the lowest land of j the heavenly country” are at end. |