SENSATIONAL CASES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13874, 10 April 1909, Page 5

SENSATIONAL CASES.

EDITOR SHOT-DEAD. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copjriguft CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7. The editor of the newspaper " Arbesti" was shot dead by an emissary of the committee of union and progress at Constantinople. Shakir Bey, au accompanying editor, was wounded. EX-CONYICTS ARRESTED. ROME, April 7. Carlo Constantino and Antonio Passantc, ex-convicts from America, have been arrested at Palermo, charged with the murder of Petrosiui, iin American detective, who was investigating the gang's connection with the Black Hand. Constantino was unable to satisfactorily explain why ho sent acode message to New Y'ork after the crime. THE MARENGO TRAGEDY. Received 11.5 p.m., April Bth. .SYDNEY, April 8. At the inquest on the body of the selector Salom, at Marengo, his daughter, who was arrested on the charge of murder, deposed, that her father threatened to kill her mother because she refused to take some medicine ho wished to give her, and followed her out to the kitchen. Witness shortly after hearing her mother scream for help got a revolver, found her father holding her mother by the throat, and shot her father. The jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide-. Received 4.15 p.m., April 9th. SYDNEY, April 9. ". Salom resided somo years ago hi New Zealand, returning to Sydney several months ago. LOVERS TAKE rOISON. HOB ART, April 9. A young girl in a fit of despair over opposition to her marriage, committed suicide by taking strychnine. Her lover on learning of her death poisoned himself, and his life is despaired of.