TRAGEDIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14239, 4 July 1910, Page 5

TRAGEDIES.

WEBER MURDER TRIAL. Pwss As»ocia.tion-By Telearaoh-Ccpyright BERLIN," July 1. Frau von Schoenebeck Weber, now on trial for complicity in the- murder 01 her first husband. Major von Schoenebeck,' by Captain von G roe ben. who committed suicide, is in a state of collapse, and attacks of hysteria an* causing frequent suspension of the trial. At Allaustein, while in bed at her hotel to-day, sho attempted to commit suicide by severing the veins in her wrist. She has been planed in a lunatic asylum.

BOY KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED A FIENDISH CRIME. NEW YORK, July 1. A Black Hand gang telephoned to Dr Scimera, an Italian physician of this city, that they had murdered his kidnapped son because the ransom of £I6OO had not been paid. They also threatened to capture and murder his other cliild. The police would not allow the doctor to pay the Tansom. FATAL REVOLVER PRACTICE. During revolver practice at Boulder, Montana, a bullet penetrated a building containing gunpowder. An explosion followed, and killed six people and wounded twenty. SCENE AT EXECUTION. CROWD FIRE ON POLICE. PARIS, July 1. Liabeuf was guillotined at dawn. A hostile crowd hissed the police and fired revolver shots, a bullet lodging in an inspector's neck. The police charged with their swords. Liabeuf, an ex-convict, was charged with the murder and mutilation of a woman named Vandamme in the Rue Botzaris, Paris, some months ago. The accused alleged that the woman died accidentally one night, and, fearinrjthat suspicion would fall on him. and that lie would be sent bnck to penal servitude, he cut up the body. CHILD BEATEN TO DEATH. Received 12.40 a.m.. Julv 4th. MELBOURNE. July 3. Alice Carton, aged 11 yenTs. vrn> beaten to death in a shocking manner by the housekeeper, a cousin of her father's. The woman subsequently attempted to commit, suicide. When she recovered consciousness- she stated that she beat the girl for telling untruths. She was distracted when she found the child was dead, and tried to commit suicide.