REAL-LIFE DRAMAS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4656, 9 October 1913, Page 5

REAL-LIFE DRAMAS.

RELIGIOUS MANIAC AT LARGE. SHOOTS TWO PERSONS DEAD. AND BLUDGEONS A THIRD. Electric Telegrapn—Press Association Copyright (Received this day at 10.5 a.m.) London, This Day. Beliviel MacDonald, who at Liverpool shot dead Paul Gaze and Mrs Crompton and wounded a youth named Roberts, is a religious maniac. All the victims belong to the new Church of Humanity, Mrs Crompton instructing the others in its tenets. MacDonald, who was armed with a revolver, razor and bludgeon, visited Roberts’s lodging, and felled him on answering the door. Roberts took refuge in a bedroom. MacDonald fired but missed, and then fled. Later he visited Gaze, who was recently married, and accompanied him to the sit-ting-room, where he shot him in the temple. Then he went to Mrs Crompton’s residence, and shot her also in the temple. MacDonald then committed suicide, dying at Mrs Crompton’s side. Roberts’s condition is not serious. A NAVAL DISASTER.

(Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) London, This Day, The battleship Thunderer seriously damaged the destroyer Jackal in the North Sea. Several battleships kept the Jackal afloat, and hauled her, stern first, fifty miles to Dundee, where she was docked. THE PEARL NECKLACE.

London, This Day. The hearing of the case against Joseph Gringard. Simon Silverman, and Leisir Gutvvirth ("Austrian diamond dealers), and Jock Lockett (jeweller), charged on remand with being concerned in the theft of the pearl necklace. was resumed at Bow Street Police Court. Gordon, an engraver, identified the seals on the necklace box as made from a die cur by him to Silverman’s order six months ago. Witness admitted trat the offer of £IO,OOO reward for the recovery of the pearls had quickened his recollection of the transaction. SMUGGLING IN CHINESE. (Received this day at 9.10 a.m.) Melbourne, This Day. John Sparge, the Customs official, has been acquitted on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the Customs in connection with the admissions of Chinese. The jury disagreed regarding the three other accused. ' WIPED OFF THE MAP. New York, Last Night. The rich sand and gold dredging area around Nome, Alaska, has been overwhelmed. Waves are overflowing the whole of the water front. The city is in ruins. The fire is still burning. People suffered great hardships. Steamers are engaged taking off the victims. Tlie electric power was wrecked. Citizens endeavoured throughout tile night to save their belongings by the light of the burning houses. A relief committee is aiding thensufferers. Five hundred are homeless. There have been four deaths. AMERICAN RACIAL RIOTS.

New York, Last Night. During race riots at the village of Romeo, negroes wrecked the gaol in order to release one of their number. Deputies engaged in a pitched battle, in which one negro was killed and many were injured. Further outbreaks are feared. THE PAYMENT OF FINES. London, Last Night. Mr R. McKenna ('Home Secretary), in a speech, stated that out of 15,000 persons imprisoned 80,000 were committed for default in not paying fines. He added that short terms of imprisonment had not a moral influence. A Rill would be introduced in 1914 giving time for payment and authorising the payment of fines by instalments. A MURDEROUS SOCIALIST. London, Last Night. A young socialist, \\ illiam Macdonald, at Liverpool, shot dead in their houses, Paul Gaze and Miss Alary Compton, and wounded a youth named Roberts. He then committed suicide. His incentive is unknown. TRIED TO SAVE OTHERS. - Berlin, Last Night. In consequence of an accident owing to wires stretched across the road a motorist invented a contrivance to remove obstructions. He tested the invention twice, and the experiments were successful, but in a severe trial failed to act, and the automobile dashed into a tree. The motorist and chauffeur were killed.

A CURE TN FRANCE. Paris, Last Niglit. At the Academy of Science Dr. Leveron announced that M. Nicolle, director of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis, had discovered a vaccine which successfully solved the problem of miring venereal disease. Two hundred cures bad been recorded, and there had been no failures. ANOTHER BANK SMASH.

Bombay. Last Night. The Banking CorjKiration has suspended payment. The liabilities are fifteen Inks of rupees. IJNTEHTURBKD HE LATCH El). Melbourne, Last Night. When the Uoy Freeman was arrested on a charge of murdering the youth Anderson, at. Wliarapanlla, he maintained that the crime had been committed by a tlvrd hoy. The police with a view to testing his credibility, brought into Freeman's presence a boy attending the same school as Andersen. Freeman l>y signs indicated that this hoy had murdered Anderson. The hoy, unperturbed, laughed, and said he was driving sheep on the day of the murder. The police fully verified this staf -neiit, and the hoy was not detained