CRIMES AND OFFENCES
BURGLARS IN HOLBORN JEWELLER'S. "Times" and Sydnev "Sun" Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, July 13. Despite the. arrival of a force of police, burglars at a jeweller's shop in Holborn, watching from the roof the movements of the police by means of reflections in, shop windows opposite, escaped with ;£IOOO worth of booty. MADAME'' CAILLAUX'S TRIAL. THE COURT CROWDED. PARIS, July 13. Many Parisians were disappointed at not being allotted seats at the Caillaux trial- The Court was crammed, and intense interest was displayed. Madame Caillaux is personally conducting her defence. A GIPSIES' FEUD. As a result of a feud between gipsies iii Auvergne a pitched battle with guns, revolvers, knives and hatchets took place, and there were many casualties. Three companies of gendarmes dispersed the combatants.
A PEASANT WOMAN. AS AVENGER OF WRONG. Press Association—By Tel. —Copyright. ST. PETERSBURG July 13. A woman shadowed a monk named Rasputin for a fortnight, and fatally stabbed him in the village of Pokroosky, Tobolsk. Rasputin was an illiterate Siberian peasant who gained great influence with the Czar as a miracle worker and rose to power in Court circles. Ho became an agent for various political cliques and exercised influence in the Bcllis case. A monk named Hiodor was imprisoned for thrashing and denouncing Rasputin as a false prophet.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15398, 15 July 1914, Page 7
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