CRIMES AND OFFENCES

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14393, 7 January 1911, Page 5

CRIMES AND OFFENCES

A POLITICAL ASSASSIN. Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright. !NEW YORK, Jan. 6. Converted of assaulting witltinteUt to kill Mr Edwards, Commissioner for street defining in New York, VSallagher, Mayor Gaynoi's assailant, has been sentenced to twelve ■ years' .imprisonment. RBMARILAIBIiE SBLEEP-STBALIN G. SYDNEY, Jan, 0. Tho mystery of tho on© tirtie famous Tantanoola. tiger hias been explained by a party of shooters whfr discovered a Blieep-stenlor's camp hidden in danso scrub. .There or© indications tha.t operations on a' vary large scale were cat** riect on for years. Numbers cSrecently killed animals were found end tha bones of hundreds of Otters. Several hundred live rfheop were found in tiho vicinity.' The groatestionre was taken to hide the place which was surrounded by a. high pallisadeof trees. A wellknown resident of the district has been arrested. A POLISH MURDER. . LONDON, Jan. 6. At the inquest on,the body of Benon, found murdered on dapham Common, Dr Freyborger end tho docftor who mode the post-mortem examination, gave evidence of a symmetrical letter S on each of Boron's choolts, reaching from tho eyes to the mouth. It was impossible, for these to be accidental., They were undoubtedly signs of murder deliberately planned. Moreover, there were many stabs after llie man l.ad been stunned. Tho "S" stands tor "spy." - Received 115. p.m., Jan; 6th. LONDON, Jan. 6. The " Telegraph " states that Beron was Russian born, and that the niardf < has the appearance of a vendetta. It is believed that he was killed , lest he should give information as to the whereabouts of Fritz. The latter and a companion changed their lodgings to Sydney street on the morning after Beron's death. BOLD AMERICAN BANDITS. , NEW YORK, Jan. 6. Two masked bandife entered the office of an hotel in El Paso, Texas, forced the clerk and porter to, take refugo in the basement, robbed the safe of a thousand sterling contained in Safety deposit boxes and escaped.