CRIMES AND OFFENCES

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14391, 5 January 1911, Page 5

CRIMES AND OFFENCES

/ A LONDON MURDER. Press Association—By Tol.—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 3. A man named Beron, a French Jew, was discovered stabbed on Clapham Common. Ho had been living ~at Rowton House, Whitcchapol, and had been collecting rents at Balham. His brother Solomon was arrested, . and afterwards released. : A man believed" to be Beron, was driven with a. foreigner, and an English woman towards Clapham. A dispute arose "over -the fare, Beron ultimately paying. BURGLARS USE DYNAMITE. HOBART, Jan. 4. Burglars made a daring attempt to rob the Union Steam SSip Company's office. They entered by a window after fruitless atempts to force two doors, and ransacked the tills and drawers without getting anything. They inserted two charges of dynamite in the keyhole of the strong-room door, and blew off its fastening, but the lock remained intact. The ' robberß wore evidently alarmed by the noise of tho explosion, and left the building without a further attempt "to finish their work or securing any booty. The charwoman in the morning found the offices full of smoke. iNo. arrests have, been made. THE PERTH MURDER TRIAL. PERTH,, Jan. 4. Th.6 inquest on the body of Ethel Harris was resumed to-day. Several witnesses identified the clothes and jewellery found with tho body as helonging to the dead girl. There was a scene when accused started cross-examining Ethel Harris's father. -The latter called Smart l a "black wretch and villain." The constables prevented him" leaving the witness box to execute a threat to smash Smart. A DISHONEST BANKER. Received 12.20 a.ml, Jaii: sth., ■ OTTAWA; Jan. 4.. Mr Travers, general manager of the Farmers' Bank, which failed, • has been arrested on a charge of theft of £BOOO. He pleaded not guilty. Bail was not forthcoming. BIG TRAIN ROBBERY. , . NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Two masked bandits fobbed a hundred passengers in the Southern Pa-' cific express, near Ogden, Utah. They shot a negro porter, and wounded others, and escaped. A sheriff's posse is pursuing them.