CRIMES AND OFFENCES

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14659, 29 January 1912, Page 5

CRIMES AND OFFENCES

A PARISIAN TIIUG. Press Association—ljy Tel.—Copyright. PARIS, Jan. 2(3. Pierre Pierri, a sweep, surrendered to the police and confessed that he murdered a girl in her bedroom in a Montmarto hotel owing to jealousy. The police inspected Pierri's own rooms in another lodgiog-house and discovered a second woman strangled. Pierri profesed to bo astonished at the discovery "bus failed to establish an alibi, and later confessed to both murders. A BANK ROBBED. OTTAWA, Jan. 26. Armed men held tip the manager and sever;]! clerks at a suburban branch of the Royal Bank. They knoi-ked i down and stunned one clerk who resisted, and herded all into a vault, j Tho robbers then escaped with a large ! sum. ' | NEW YORK, Jan. 27. In the Hazssard trial tile judge, j acting on positive evidence of jury- j tampering, issued a stem warning or ] the result of the diseovcry of the j guilty party. He exonerated counsel J oil both sides. Hazzard's counsel I asked for an acquittal, and the judge refused.