"IT'S SEDAN FOR YOU."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 97, 30 May 1914, Page 3

"IT'S SEDAN FOR YOU."

BERLIN - SUPPER DISPUTE ENDS j] IN BULLETS. "Herrings for supper? Not if I 'krlow it, Kitty: It will be sprats, I tell you.", . • "If you don't quit arguing, Edward, il will be.lead-for one.'.' ' . Edward refused to eat kippers, so his •wife whipped out a revolver, but before she could pull the\trigger Edward produced a Browning and shot her through the shoulder. •/'..'. The above formed a domestic drama incident which was dealt with , last month in the Berlin Centra], Criminal Court. Edward Lorenz, a Berlin baker, and his wife Katharine have been at loggerheads for 'years. Finally both: armed themselves with revolvers. Over; a--dispute whether they should have lcippers or sprats for supper they came to an interchange of bullets. Katharine was shot in the shoulder, but when the husband was arrested she refused to give evidence against him, and he had to be released.

■ The next time Kitty got in the first shot, and the man was wounded, but the woman had to be released owing t)> the husband's refusal to give evidtijp.ee. Finally, over another supper dispute, the woman was so badly injured that the court decided there was "too much colour in their disputes," and the husband went to prison for fifteen months. During his enforced absence the wife abandoned her husband, sold the furniture, and went off with a man named Joswowicz. .

On leaving prison, the first thing the husband did was to obtain another revolver and lie in wait for his. wife. Then he took a room in a fashionable hotel and proceeded to bombard his wife with letters: "Now you've done, Mrs Lorenz Joswowicz: it's Sedan for you or Jerusalem. I daresay Joswowicz is a handsomer man than I, but neither of you will be handsome when I'm through with you." The woman put the letters in the hands of the police, who again arrested liorenz on a warrant, iii which the culprit was described as a dangerous maniac. He has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment.

mostly old, and frames of sewing machines, two or three bicycles, several ball dresses, dusty but withal unworn, and at least six or seven seasons behind fashion; piles of cambric handkerchiefs; kerosene lamps in profusion, boot laces in clusters such as-one sees in a shop, toys old and new, but covered with dust, imitation jewellery and albums. The curator's office states that the principal object of the quest is to ascertain whether the old man left a secret hoard in any of the rooms, and to discover papers that will throw light upon his antecedents. So far they have not obtained a clue. A rosary was found in one of his pockets, and 12/- in silver; while in one room was found valuable Orange regalia. The neighbours know very little about O'Neill beyond the fact that he once carried on a pawnbroking establishment, and that he habitually complained that whenever he went into business he was robbed by his partners. *■

eugenics, Dr Loeb cited specific arguments in support of the law of heredity. He said: —

" Modern science has solved the mys- si< tic laws of the structure of matter. We ps know the secret of sex and the kinds of . life-producing cells. We know that the ps life cell which produces the female con- ca tains one more chromosome than that l-j which gives birth of the male. In this al connection we know that through 2c heredity certain qualities are localised to in these sex chromosome. This has been proved. Colour-blindness is an example of this truth."