MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 291, 16 December 1902, Page 4

MAIL NEWS.

SENSATIONAL SCENE IN A COURT.

Just as the case of Clarence Peake, charged with the murder of Silas Hulin at Clinton, Term., was about to be called in the Supreme Court at Knoxville (Term.) on October 20 (says a telegram in the San Francisco Chronicle), a man entered the courtroom unannounced, and, addressing Chief Justice Beard, said: " I am Silas Hulin, who was not killed by Clarence Peake." Peake, who is the son of a prominent family, had been sentenced in a lower court to 10 years in the penitentiary, and is now in the insane asylum near Knoxville, a raving maniac, as the result of his troubles. Hulin declares that Peake shot another, whose name is now unknown, and that he (Hulin) escaped on the first train and went to Colorado, from which State he came back to prove that he was not dead.

A PRIESTESS KILLS HERSELF. Miss Ida 0. Graddock, high priestess and pastor of the Church of Yoga in Chicago, and missionary of her peculiar philosophy in New York, killed herself by taking illuminating gas on the night of October 16, at her home (says a telegram published in the San Francisco Chronicle.) She had also slashed herself with a razor before turning on the gas. . Her suicide was undoubtedly caused, by the prosecutions which she has suflered for oircnlating books and pamphlets in propaganda of her remarkable tenets. They were so bold that not only Anthony Comstockjbatthe United States authorities, had her arrested. She served three months on Blaokwell's Island for circulating a book called " The Wedding Night." Miss Craddockwas born in Philadelphia. She had lived in Denver and in San Francisco. In the latter city she held a position as stenographer in the AngloCalifornian Bank for some time, continuing to spread the propaganda of her faith. She was 45 years old. Miss Oraddock secured, at one time, a qualified endorsement of her work from the Rev. Dr W. S. Rainsford, and an unqualified endorsement from William E. Stead, the English journalist.

At a No'lioense reunion in the Canterbury Hall, Ohristohurch, on Friday night, the Rev. F. W. Isitt said that at the next election he would not be found standing for .ten electorates, as at the recent election. If the conditions connected with taking the licensing poll were not changed, ten, fifteen, or twenty candidates, including himself and his brother, would come forward and fight the elections with a determination to win. Three weeks after the elections he had received offers from people to contest the next elections, and if lie told the name of one of those who were willing to come forward it would send a thrill through the audi*