GENERAL NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIV, 26 November 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

OFFER TO BUY HUMAN EAR. “Human ear wanted —£100 offered for left car of medium size.—Apply Mr. Prank S. Cnsada, 15S, blast 1 dll'ad Street, New York.” The New York Herald which published r ,his announcement, states ‘hat Mr. Cusada, whose home is at Manzanillo, Cuba, lust his loft ear in an accident, and a New York surgeon told him that nothing could be simpler than grafting a now oar. BURGLAH S WILD DASH. THRILL WHICH BEATS TUP FILM No (ilm Ina e/er been .*rammed with so much adventure as the real life drama which has just boon enacted at Clermont Ferrand, in which a real burglar named Ocllcrier was the no for Innate hero, says the Paris correpsondont of the Weekly Dispatch. This man was known to the police as a cool and daring housebreaker who had committed'2oo offences. He was cornered daring the night in a house in which he had been hiding.

Tlio police waited for daylight for an attempt to rush him. C'clloricr was walehldil, however, and half an hour

before dawn was up and away. lie slid down a drain pipe from a second storey window nearly into the arms of a slumbering; policeman, .and raced past a police cordon down (lie street. Whistles were blown and detectives and uniformed men dashed after him.

They were gaining when Cellerier came to a bridge over a railway track. AVifhout hesitation he sprang on to the parapet and jumped down on to the track.

Here the police hesitated for a few seconds, and then, just as in a Jilin, the train came thundering past and cutting off pursuit, gave the criminal a welcome respite.

Tis real life adventure ended tragically. The burglar was nearing the safely of a wood when a posse of cyclist police, armed with revolvers came along. At the same moment there came from the opposite direction a heavy motor lorry, travelling well over the speed limit. AVitli the hands of the police almost on his shoulder, Cellerier made a last desperate bid for liberty. Leaping sideways into the air, lie made a wild

clutch at the lorry, trying to climb into the driver’s scat. There was a lurch, and the burglar lost his hold. A second later he was dead, the wheels of the vehicle having passed over him.