WIFE MURDERS HUSBAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 9 March 1914, Page 5

WIFE MURDERS HUSBAND

IMPRISONED FOR LIFE

(Press Association. —Copyrioht.)

(Received Mar. 9, 9 a.m.) BOMBAY", March 8,

The wife of Buckingham Stevens » dentist, was found guilty of murciering her husband while asleep in a bungalow at - Kottayam, and Burton W. Swinny of abetting. Both were sentenced to imprisonment for life.

The current issue of the Post London Directory has reached its 114tn birthday, and its robustness is testinea by the fact that it now turns the scale at 151b. Defying the most ingenious devices, the volume insists upon growing, and an additional 40 pages have had to be added to cope with the many thousands who have established a right to be put upon the list. The compiler is able to deprive one source of comfort, bowever, from the fact that each year the number of new streets in the-area covered bv the directory tend to diminish. ' Seventy new trades have made their appearance, amongst them being manufacturers of compressed amber, aeroplane / woodwork, petrol storage plant, photographers' backgrunds, and radum products and dealers in incandescent mantle ash.- The coming of the motor vehicle probably accounts for the fact that there are now only 24 horse dealers and six horse and carriage repositories. 'London contains 25 lapidaries. There is cmlv one handcuff maker, one kilt maker, and one paber lantern maker; but there are ' three .harp makers; : five mouth organ . - makers/ and r eight makers of illuminated (addresses.