MISCELLANEOUS

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11861, 15 February 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS

, London, Feb 13 During a fire in a boardinghouse , at Steinach, Lake Constance, Mr , Watson, an Englishman, and his wife and five children were burned to death. Thomas Parnham, a laborer, who [ is dumb and feeble-minded, and who has be6n arrested at Nottingham, has confessed to the recent attempts to wreck trains and the burning of churches generally. The house of Charles Wertheimer, .he millionaire, in Park Lane, was entered by "burglars, and pictures and articles of vertu, valued at fifty • thousand pounds were stolen, including the Gainsborough picture ? of Nancy Parsons and Reynolds' picture of Mistress Charles Yorke*'. valued at twenty-thousand pounds, which were unskilfully cut from their frames with a carving knife.