NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1928, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

FINES ON THE SPOT. PARIS, August lffi The institution of patrols who have authority to stop motorists who break the rules of the road and collect fines on the spot has been an inspiration to a versatile thief. Exhibiting a. bogus police-card, a man who passed! himself off as a road police-inspector in mufti pulled up a number of motorists on the main road near Epernay, in Champagne. He imposed upon them fines varying from £1 to £2. 1 These he immediately took and then allowed the delinquents to proceed.

Yesterday the bogus road-inspector, a. man named Henri Rousseau, fell into the hands of,a real gendarmerie. He confessed to haying pulled up more than twelve motorists.

JEWELS ON SANDS. NICE, Aug. 16. Jewels valued at £4OO lost by Mrs Dorothy Monteith, of * Canterbury, have been recovered in a remarkable way. She left them in one of her shoes in her bathing-cabin at Mentone. A girl of seven was found by her mother yesterday to he wearing a pearl necklace and diamond ring. The mother asked the girl where she got them from. She replied that she found them on the beach while making sand castles one day last week. The mother, who had read in the newspapers of Mrs Monteith’s loss took them to the police and Mrs Monteith has regained possession of them. GIRL IN PINK. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10. Shortly after five o’clock this morning the residents in a lodging-house in one of the poorer districts of Philadelphia were aroused from sleep by a fusillade of revolver shots. Peeping fearfully from tile windows they saw five men leaving the house in a, great hurry and with them a strikingly pretty girl, a brunette wearing a pink georgette dress. When the police arrived on the scene they found that one of the men living in the lodg-ing-house, an Irish-American gangster,

named Daniel O’Leary, was lying dead in bed. The police expressed the opinion tlnu the man was “humped-off” by gunmen in revenge for the shooting of Hunchback McLeon,” who was a well-known figure in prize-fighting circles. The young woman was, they think, probably a decoy. She had been living at the lodging-house with O’Leary. PIONEERS’ MONUMENT. MONTREAL, Aug. 16. The unveiling of a monument to Yorkshire folk who emigrated and settled in the Cumberland and Westmorland counties of Now Brunswick in 1772-1776 will he a feature of the official opening of Fort Beausejour, Canada’s newest national park. The park lies mid-way between Sackyille. New Brunswick, and Amherst, Nova Scotia.