“CAT” FOR A ROBBER At Lincolnshire Assizes Mr Justice Acton sentenced Arthur Dawson, aged 29, of Grimsby, to nine months’ hard labour and ten strokes of the “cat” for robbery with violence. Dawson, who was “on the road,” met a man named William Newton, who befriended him. Later he knocked Newton down, lumped on him. and struck at him with a sharp-pointed table knife, which entered his hand. After securing Newton’s purse, Dawson ran away.
SCHOOLGIRL GASSED Alma Garwood (ID. a scholar at Southend High School for Girls was founc! dend by her father in the scullery of her home, apparently from gas poisoning. ■ She had been subject to fainting fits, and the presumption is she was making teai and fainted before lightincr tb a g^ s , wUislv was turned) on.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12526, 16 August 1926, Page 3
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