HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16538, 23 September 1921, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

LONDON ZULU’S FIN. The Johannesburg authorities are ftt their wits’ end to know what to do with a full-blooded Zulu who speaks English fluently but not a word of hi* native tongue. H© lias wandered all over South Africa, in a vain search for work, but owing to his inability to speak Zulu the rest of his tribe treat him wdth suspicion. He was adopted when four years old as the mascot ot the 3rd Hussars, then stationed at Mantzburg, and ho went to England with the regiment. He settled in London, and when the war broke out he joined the Machine Gun Corps. On. being demobilised he decided to return out of curiosity to his native land. He has now come to the conclusion that he had better return “ heme ** to Wapping, in the East End of London, where his boyhood was spent. BEAUTY’S DOWNFALL. The daughter of a railway magnate and once a leading figure in Baltimore, Sara Cowen, aged tmrty-threo, died alone, amid the sordid surroundings of * a cheap New York hotel, apparently from an overdose of morphine, to which she had become addicted. The most beautiful debutante of her com-ing-out year, she figured in a romantic elopement in 1900. She divorced her husband two years later, and afterwards disappeared. Nothing was heard of her until three years ago, when she was found in a prison hospital at Blackwell’s Island under treatment as a drug-taker. She was discharged apparently cured in 1919, and joined the New York post-graduate hospital as a probationer nurse. Less than a year later she was dismissed for alcoholism. After that, nothing was heard of the millionaire’s daughter until she was found dead on the floor of the hotel bedroom. Near the body were two bottles containing morphine tablets. She inherited a fortune estiS a^ d , at £loo '°oo, her father Both her parents died several veais ago. MUST TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH, A question of considerable importance affecting the law of evidence was debated before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Sankey and Branson in the Court of Criminal Appeal in London. Jeremiah Minnihane, a man appealed against a conriction at Maidstone Assizes, and sentence of ten years penal servitude for shootinr at policemen at Broraiey with intern to injure them. Mr H. C. Dickens, for Minnihane, said that the ground of the appeal vras that, because he refused to give evidence that would incriminate other men, Mr Justice Roivlatt ordered him out of the witness-box. By so doing, it was contended, the Judge deprived the prisoner of the chance of stating his full defence. The Bird Chief Justice: A prisoner cannot pick and choose what evidence he will give when he sweai s to tell tho whole truth.

Dickins: The Judge cannot prevent him from refusing to tell the whole truth, and he has no power to refuse the man the right to give that evidence he is prepared to give. Or course, a prisoner is wrong in refusing to give evidence, even though he does so in order to shield a companion, but he should not have the whole of his evidence shut out.

Mr Holder, K.C. (for the Crowni, said the Judge could have committed the prisoner at once for contempt, and that would have put an end to his evidence.

Describing the case as one of great! legal interest the Lord Chi*f Justice said that a prisoner who went into the box to give evidence was bound to tell tli© whole truth, notwithstanding thal he might incriminate others. If he openly refused to tell the whole truth, then the Judge could reject his etorv altogether. The appeal was dismissed. SOUP WITH HAIRCUT* A French barber named Guy out has been seriously discouraged in his efforts to assist in bringing down the cost of living. He conceived the idea of setting up a chair outside the Paris markets where, for twopence halfpenny, he cut hair and shaved customers, and in addition presented them with a bowl of soup. Tlie business prospered, for, although the profits were infinitesmal, Guy out carried on a brisk trade. One customer, after having been shaved and having had the soup, stole a comb and razor and made off. The barber pursued him and there followed a lively chase among the vegetable stalls. Guyout overtook the thief and grabbed his coat, but the man slipped out of the coat and, leaving it in the barber’s hands, escaped with the stolen articles. CARUSO S MOODS. “Caruso lived only for singing,” said Dr W illiam Lloyd, the London throat specialist. 44 He had no interests whatever outside liis art. He was an extraordinary man and he had extraordinary moods. One day he would burst into my consulting room singing ‘ I Love a Lassie ’ —-he was remarkably Fond of Sir Harry Lauder’s songs—and would cry, 4 How are you? 9 to my dog Togo and be as gay as a lark. But next day, perhaps, he would be in mood and manner down to zero. And when he was in this latter state he was very difficult to deal with. He was a very big eater and he was very fond of everything in oil. The result was that he used to get intestinal poisoning. His whole trouble was he ate a lot but could not digest it, for he never took any exercise. He would take a taxicab to go a few yards. Despite the fact that he demanded thousands of pounds in fees, he really cared very little for money. I have known him to refuse £2OOO to sing at a Sunday afternoon concert- at the Albert Hall with the rev mark, “ No, I am too tired.* On another occasion J made him an offer of £4OOO on behalf of Sir Oswald Stoll to sing in London, but he waved it aside with a smile, saying, * It is too much/ 99