GENERAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, 22 August 1923, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

GIRL OF TWELVE SHOT. A o-irl aged twelve has killed another 0 girl of the same age in the village of Ossi, in Sardinia. The pair°had been paying cards and the stakes were some family jewellery, which they had stolen. One girl lost all, drew a revolver, and shot the other girl through the head. Carabineers saved her from the? indignation of the villagers. A RACING PEST. Described by the police as a racing pest who got his living by blackmailing bookmakers, W. Kimberley, 31, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to twelve months’ hard labour for wounding Steve Griffin, a bookmaker during a. row in a Camden Town public bouse. A police inspector said that witnesses had been reluctant to come forward -owing to the violent character of Kimberley and his associates.

BOY’S DANGEROUS PRANKS. Richard M. Pearson and G. E. L. 'Beauchamp, (students, of Tisbnry, were indicted at Wiltshire Quarter Sessions for endangering the safety of a train by trying to drop stones down the funnel of an engine passing under a bridge at Semley. The boys were bound over and ordered to pay costs. FEROCIOUS CAT. A 10-year-old boy named Gillow, of Forest Street, Mile Bnd, Glasgow was attacked by a cat in his house. His legs and face were torn and his sister, who eventually beat the animal off, was badly scratched on the legs. Both brother and sister had to go to the infirmary for treatment. The eat was destroyed. THE PRINCE’S DRIVE. After a banquet given to the Prince of Wales by the Newcastle Corporation he drove through the streets of the city, which were densely packed with people and, received a great ovation. In the Big Market, the forum of the city, a Socialist orator was haranguing a crowd, but when the cry went up, “He’s coming,” the audience disappeared. DEATH IN PULPIT. During service at Bovinger Church near Ongar. Essex, the Rev. 0. E. Day dropped dead in the pulpit. He was 55 years of age. Mr. Day, who had been rector of Bovinger since 191!), had been suffering from heart trouble for several months. He leaves a wife and three children, one cf whom, a v#ung man. was in th° f»'*rrch at the i time of his father’s death.