THE BERENGARIA'S LIQUOR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 5

THE BERENGARIA'S LIQUOR

U.S.-BRITISH TREATY TO BE TESTED. Received June 26, 8.30 p.m. NEW YORK, June 25. An order was served on the District Attorney, requiring him to show cause why he should not seize all liquors aboard the Cunarder Berengaria, scheduled to sail for England to-day. This is said to be the first ship to test the validity of the recent liquor treaty with great Britain. THE ORDER REFUSED Received June 26, 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK, June 25. The Federal Court refused an order sought directing the District Attorney to seize liquors aboard the Berengaria. BLOODTHIRSTY CLAIRVOYANT 20 WOMEN AND GIRLS MURDERED. FANTASTIC STORY FROM MOSCOW Received June 26, 8.50 p.m. (Reuter.) LONDON, June 25. The Daily Express’ Moscow eorr*Mpondent says: Anastasia Permiakova, a gipsy clairvoyante, with her husband and six male and female accomplices, has been sentenced to death for Horrible murders of twenty women and girls. Permiakova escaped from prison during the revolution while serving a sentence for murder. She then organised a murder gang, pillaged villages and held up trains.. She afterwards settled down as a clairvoyante. She had a huge clientele of women, many of whom mysteriously disappeared. The crimes were undetected till Permiakova called at a solicitor’s house and told a beautiful daughter’s future. She order;ri to bare her neck to see if she had a lucky mark, and then murdered her with a hatchet. The police found in the woman’s flat ten blood stained hatchets.