HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17833, 29 April 1926, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. BANISTER SLIDE AT TO. Returning a verdict of accidental death at an inquest at Matlock, Derbyshire, the coroner remarked that it only showed it was inadvisable to slide down banisters at the age of 70. as did Arthur Neal, hotel-keeper. _ A doctor stated that he had seen Ntal do the slide down the stairs. The evidence showed that he had slipped before, but on this occasion he ftU and fractured his skull. 35 » 55 DEAD MAN BEHIND DOOR. The bodv of “Taffy” Granger, a middle-aged man, was found lying behind a door in a house in Horse and Groom Court. Newington Butts, London. His neck was broken. He had been missing for several days, and it was decided to force an entry into house. It is thought that he received the fatal injury by falling downstairs. His wife was taken to the hospital the previous week. FEATHER FOUND IN CHILD'S STOMACH. An inquest was held at West Bromwich on the 17-months-old child of ' Samuel Holmes, of West Bromwich. ; Medical evidence showed that the child : died from bronchial pneumonia, but j there were two unusual features revealed by the post-mortem. The child 1 had a septic eye, the sight of which had gone, and the stomach contained a feather three inches long. The coro--3 * ner recorded a verdict of “Death from j natural causes.” ’ MISSING HOUSEOWNER. “Permitting the premises to be withs out a roof, thereby exposing them to i inclement weather. ’ was . the wording of a sumons heard at North London against the owner of a house in Easts side, London Fields. The owmer has r not been heard of since 1917, when t he joined up. Two families are - living in the house. It was stated that s the premises were damaged during ~ an air raid. The magistrate ordered a new roof to be put on within a week. This will be done by Hackney Council, and charged to the tenants.

OIL KILLS FISH. Quantities of fish have died in the River Thames during the recent bad weather. It has been noticed, particularly at Richmond, that the water has been covered with a film of dirty oil, but the suggestion that oil boats have, contrary to regulations, been discharging their tanks in the river is not confirmed. A retired waterman suggested that the deposit on the water is caused bv oil and tar carried down by the rain and floods from the roads. Asked whether oil had affected the swans or the seagulls, he said: “No, I do not think so, but it has killed several hundreds of fish. Some days you can find hundreds of them along the banks between Teddington and Putney. ’ MURDERER’S £IO,OOO. Sentence of death was passed by the assize court of Melun on a man named Andre Hamard. aged 26. who murdered a 70-vear-old spinster, Mile. Leroy and robbed her of her savings amounting to more than £IO,OOO. Ihe youthful murderer dissipated the £IO.OOO in less than two weeks by living what he described as “a millionaire’s life at Biarritz.” JUDGE AND “PRAMS.” “If I had my way I should not allow women to walk on pavements with perambulators,” said Judge Crawford at Southend County Court, award- » ing a woman £2 2s damages because I her coat was torn by the hub of a push chair. Judge Crawford added | that gossiping women with peraxn- { bulators often turned pedestrians into the road at grave personal risk.