NEWS OF THE WORLD

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4606, 6 October 1934, Page 2

NEWS OF THE WORLD

JOKE CAUSES CHILD'S DEATH. An inspection engine was crawling along the line near Bystre, Bohemia. It overtook a man walking beside the track. One of the engine's crew snatched off the man's hat for a joke and dangled it in front of him. As he puffed and panted after them the men roared w!ith laughter. The men were so engrossed in the joke that they failed to notice a two-year-old girl crossing the line. She was run over and killed instantly. Both the engine-driver and his assistant have been arrested. BRAVE MAN SENTENCED. Described by defending counsel as a brave and gallant man, George Dixon, aged 28, of Chester, who holds a life-saving certificate, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment at Chester recently on each of three charges of housebreaking. The sentences ai*e to run consecutively. Defending counsel stated that on one occasion Dixon rescued a boy from the river Dee, and in 1933 he rescued a woman from a house after an explosion.

The Commissioner, in passing sentence, remarked: "I think there is good in you, but your trouble is that you don't like steady going." KILLED BY A FALLING STONE. With human hair still adhering to it, a large blood-stained stone which killed the girl while she was sitting on the mountainside with her lover, was produced at the inquest on Ruby Letitia Dennis, aged 16, of Aberaman. Her sweetheart, Daniel Alfred Mills, aged 20, of Gwmaman, was seriously injured by the stone, and was unable to attend the inquiry.

Evidence was given by John Henry Mills, of Gwmaman, that he was on Abercwmboi Mountain when Mills called out to him. Hurrying to the spot he found Miss Dennis lying on the ground. She was bleeding from the temple. Mills, who was injured, was standing over her. There was a large stone on the ground just below the girl.

Inspector David James stated that the stone dropped 264 feet down the surface of the mountain. He had since tried a couple of stones, and they attained a tremendous velocity.

The coroner recorded a verdict of "Death from injuries caused by a stone which was dislodged from the mountainside."

SCENE AT AERODROME. WOMAN PATIENT FEARS REMOVAL. An exciting scene at a French aerodrome on June 14 preceded the flight to England of a woman passenger in a specially chartered British aeroplane. As soon as the aeroplane arrived at Le Bourget an ambulanc drove up, and from it —according" to a report from Paris—a woman doctor, a nurse, and another attendant transferred a woman, aged about 70. Suddenly she started a startling cry, "Help, help." she yelled. "They are kidnapping* me."

The woman's protests were so vociferous that the commandant of the airport, M. Girardot, appeared, and to the accompaniment of the her cries of "Save me. Save me!" he made an investigation.

It was explained that the patient was an Englishwoman, whose health was so poor that it had become necessary to transfer her from her residence in Paris to England, where she was to undergo medical treatment.

The patient, however, it was stated, did not favour removal, and in their solicitude members of her family had decided that it would be better for her to travel by air rather than by train arid boat. After consulting police headquarters the commandant raised no objection to the patient being taken on the journey.

Less than two hours later the machine landed at Hillman's Mayland aerodrome at Romford, where it was expected. Mr. Edward Hillman said later: "When the machine landed the patient was quite normal, and was laughing. She walked out with the doctor, a nurse, and a male attendant. A car was in waiting and in it the party left the aerodrome. The French doctor, the nurse and the attendant returned to Paris later."

The patient who remained perfectly self-possessed, was driven by road to a nursing home at Oxford.