NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 9 September 1925, Page 4

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Remarkable Accident. On the Loudon Midland and Scottish railway, near Bradford, a runaway horse drawing a milk float crashed through a wooden fence alongside the line on to the metals, and collided wtih an oncoming passenger train. The driver of the float died from his injuries, and the horse had to be destroyed. Enlisted at 58. James Hislop Cook 1\ ilson, paintei, at Cupar Sheriff Court, was lined £3 for stealing a bicycle which he had found at the side of a wood. Wilson said he was 72 years of age, and joined the Army in 1911, after dyeing his hair with boiled tea and shaving off his moustache. Ho had served abroad. The Mother of Fourteen. The wife of an engine driver stated at Croydon County Court that she had 14 children to keep. The Registrar: Are they all your husband’s? Woman: Yes. Registrar: Then he should have known better. To Protect Pedestrians. With the object of looking after the interests of pedestrians, a Pedestrian Protection Association has been formed in England. The secretary, in his preliminary announcement, points out the need for some such society, in view of the growing peril in tlie streets, as shown by the following totals of deaths or serious injuries for the past seven years: — 19] 8 36,685 1019 49,750 1921) 50.438 1921 62,621 1922 70,197 1923 83,101 1924 98,215 Dream Leads to Death. Miss Mary Flanagan (74), of HanImry street. London, E„ was knocked down and killed in Aldcrsgate street bv a Jilts. ' At the inquest, where a verdict of “Accidental death” was returned, her sister said she had come to her terrililv upset. “She told me,” said the sister, “that she had had a dream that I had been killed, and had hurried away front her work to see if it was untrue. ’ ’ It was on her way back that Miss Flanagan met with the accident. Driver Falls from Engine. A remarkable incident occurred at Holywell station, North Wales, on the London-llolyhead line. From the town station a branch line runs up the steep hill to Holywell. When descending the hill the driver of a train slipped off the footplate, and the engine proceeded uncontrolled to the junction station, where it crashed into the stop-end, smashing the engine and carriage. Fortunately there were no passengers in the train. Prison for Minister. A clerk in Holy Orders of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, Harold Muyull, of Palmers Moor House, Iver, Bucks, appealed at the Middlesex sessions against a sentence of 21 days’ imprisonment ill the second division for being drunk while in charge of a motor car. While driving a car at Hillingdon, Mayall collided with a motor coach. A policeman was called, and soon after found him hanging on the radiator of his car, and arrested him. Mayall stated that lie had been to Hendon Cottage Hospital to see his fiancee, who was lying seriously ill, and who died a day or two later. Sir Montague Sharpe said it had

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Roadman’s Lucky Discovery. Mr Sydney Hamson, of Sutton Buildings, Chelsea, a marine engineer, who is working as a casual roadman for the Chelsea Borough Council, found, during his employment, what he thought was a string of broken heads in a gutter in Rloane street. They were pearls that had been lost by Violet Lady Beaumont, and were valued at £IO9O. Describing his discovery of the pearls, Mr Hamson, in an interview, said: I picked them up and drew 1 the attention~"bf the foreman and several of the others. I was told by the others that they were just white heads filled with tallow fat. At first I hardly thought they were worth taking home, but I brought them along, and in the evening handed them over to my younger daughter | Margaret, who wore then round the house. “They were so large that I did not for a moment suppose they ivere real pearls. However, one of my fellowworkers told me that someone was advertising for a lost pearl neeklace, so I promptly took them along to the owner, and discovered it was the missing 1 necklace.” Hamson tool; them to Eaton Square, where Lady Beaumont immediately recognised them as the lost string. Only one pearl of the forty-seven was missing, and it is thought that this was probably crushed by a passing vehicle. Hamson received £SO, the reward offered by Lady Beaumont for the return of the pearls. Hamson. who is 35, was with one of Peary’s Polar expeditions, and was also torpedoed three times in a month during the war, Human Monkey in Paris. Dayton has found its first victim in Paris. From the Tennessee Court the contagion of “Banderlog” 'behavior has spread to France. Surging crowds on the FaubourgSaint Martin stopped and then followed a man who went on all fours along the street. Gravely on toes and palms he ambled down the sidewalk. A policeman intervened. “Who are you ?” he asked. “The man who descended from the monkey,” was the answer. “Where are you going?” the policeman asked. “Down there into the woods,” answered this would-be apostle of nature. The crowd roared with laughter, for Dayton is now a name at which men laugh. Gently at first the policeman strove to raise this would-be monkey to an erect position, but obstinacy is one of the greater simian characteristics. Neither forward, backward nor upright would he go, and at last had to be lifted inlo a taxi-cab. His name was found to be Philippe Bellat, and his age 65 years. Up till the time he began to read accounts of the Dayton trial he was the chief warder of a lunatic asylum. Now he is going back there as an inmate.