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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)

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brothers fight

DUEL IN STREET | ARREST OF COLONEL FOLLOWS. NEW YORK. April 20. I The late Theodore Roosevelt ’s former i campaign manager, Colonel Edward I Carrington, aged 55, was arrested to- ■ day for fighting a duel with his brother, Campbell Carrington, aged 53, in a New York Street. 'Pho duel was fought with canes. The younger brother was afterwards taken to hospital. The quarrel arose over attentions which he is . d Io have been paying to his broth • wife. I The colonel, who is a scion m a dis ■ J tinguished Southern family, weighs over 141 stone. He is a millionaire and ’ wears a large flowing moustache. He pulled this and flourished his cane vigorously as he explained. “T am on my feet; my brother is in . hospital. That explains who won the conflict. “I came here with two detectives to substantiate my suite for divorce. 'Last night I went to my wife’s house and it was not long before my brother emerged. “Are you looking for me?” he said. “His manner was most insulting Ho rushed at me and swung his cane. I swung mine. We exchanged thrusts as in a duel. “Suddenly blood streamed from his ; face. Then he fled and J returned to ■ my club. ” The colonel s wife, who refused to make a statement, has filed countercharges against him, alleging cruelty, drunkenness, and failure to provide for i [her. . | CRASH AT NIGHT EXPRESS DERAILS A BOGEY. GLASGOW. April 3. An express special train from Greenock to Glasgow, in which lhe newlylanded passengers of the C.P.R. liner Montcalm were travelling, ran into a platelayer’s bogey near Kihnacolm last night. It appears that boys, who had been playing with the bogey, fled when they saw the train. which fortunately bumped the bogey clear of the line. None of the passengers noticed any untoward happening. The bogey was' completely smashed, but the train was | undamaged, VICEROY OF INDR i MODERN HAROUN AL RASCHID. DELHI, April 10. 1 Lord Irwin, the Viceroy, gave anj other instance to-day of his desire to I see Indian life for himself and the I work for the welfare of the people, when, accompanied by the deputy-com-missioner. the health officer, and the superintendent of police, he paid a surprise visit to the heart of Delhi He walked through the narrow streest behind the Chandni Chunk, and (spent a long time inspecting the shops and dwelling places. He went up sev- ., oral small alleys, and asked searching ,questions about the sanitary arrange- ! ments and the general conditions of the | inhabitants. “DESERT SONG” "ROSE MARIE'S” RIVAL. LONDON. April 9. Mussed dancing, a mathematicallydrilled and gorgeously attired chorus, 100 Foreign Legionaries, who march and countermarch in the Moroccan desert, requiring the full depth of Drury Lane’s huge, stage, formed the iculmination to a series of brilliant specI taeles in “Tho Desert Song,” which opened at the famous theatre last night. The plot is strong enough to chai lenge the record-breaking “Rose .Marie,” without the music. A French general’s son, pretending to be a halfwitted nincompoop in home life, joins a band of chivalrous brigands as a sort' of super-sheik, and starts setting wrongs right. His financee, believing him insane, arranges to wed his rival. Then there’s a he-man abduction, fol lowed by adventures in a harem,, and music that everybody will be whistling. Clarice Hardwicke, as the quaint second heroine, supplies humour with a good edge. HEROIC SYDNEY BOY SAVES SISTER’S LIFE. FIRE IN A BEDROOM. SYDNEY, April 20. The heroism of a ten-year-old boy, ■ Harold Cubis, saved his sister, Kath leen Cubis, aged 21 years, from being burned to death in Sydney last night. Five children, of whom Harold was the eldest and Kathleen the youngest, were left in the bedroom at their home during the mother’s temporary absence. By some unknown means a candle, standing on a table at the side of tho bed, set the clothes alight. The nightdress of the little girl also quickly k caught. The screams of the children attracted the attention of a man and his wife, who were passing in a sulky. When they broke into the. room they found Harold with his infant, sister across his ( lap, beating out the flames with his bunds. Having done this, he then turned and helped to extinguish the tire . in the room. The boy had his hands badly burned. . The baby was admitted to hospital, and ! so severe were her burns that an anaesI (thetic had to be administered before ■ (they could be dressed. The other throe children escaped injury.

ADORED WAX MODEL

THE GIRL HE LOVED SHATTERED ROMANCE SENDS MAN TO ASYLUM. PARIS, April 20. The death is just reported in Budapest of Michael Kallosy, known for many years throughout Austria and Hungary as “the madman who loved the wax doll.’’ Kallosy, a member of an aristocratic Hungarian family, fell madly in love with a beautiful Jewish girl and proposed marriage. Her parents, however, refused their consent on tho grounds that Kallosy was a Christian, and shortly afterwards the young Jewess married another man of her own religion. The wrecking of his dreams turned Kallosy’s brain. He rented a flat in a house facing that in which his lost love lived with h*r husband, and every hour of the day he watched her window from his own. One day a number of packing cases arrived from Paris and were delivered to Kallosy's. For several weeks Ju locked himself in his room anti would not allow even his house keeper to enter. Finally the housekeeper, fearing for her master’s safety, looked through the keyhole and saw him talking to Iln object of his dreams —the w<jman who lived opposite. She knocked at. the door and was admitted by Kallosy. onlv to find that the woman had disappeared. It was some time before the police ascertained the truth, which was that Kallosky, by sending a detailed do—cription and a number of photographs of the Jewess to a Parisian firm of wax model manufeturers, had a lifelike model of her made. He dressed the wax mannequin in clothing like that which from his window he saw her wearing. When the object of his love became a mother, lhe unfortunate man ha<l a wax doll made, and this he placed in the mannequin’s arms. The police eventually persuaded M. Kallosky to enter an asylum with his two wax models, and it was in that in stitution that he has just died.

RUNAWAY MARRIAGE ROMANTIC STORY OF HISTORIC ESTATE. LONDON, April 20. A romantic story is associated witl I pton House, estate, near Banbury which, with 800 acres, has been sold by .Messrs John D. Wood and Company ir Lord Bearsted. chairman of Shel Transport and Trading Company. A part of the house goes back to the 15th century, but the house itself was built at the end of the 17th century In 1759 it belonged Io Francis Child, the banker. The story of a runaway match relates to lhe daughter of Robert Child. She. was a great heiress, and among her suitors was John, 10th Earl of Westmorland. Fearing that the rich banker would never consent to his daughter’s marriage to a poor peer, tho Earl one day asked him, “What would you do if you fell in love with a girl whose father would not consent to her marriageT” “Why.” said tho banker, “run away with her, to be sure.” The young nobleman was not slow to adopt the suggestion. A maid’s help was obtained; she drugged tho duenna, who slept in an outen apartment to that of the young heiress, and Miss Child escaped from the house in Berkeley Square at night and fled with her lover in a post-chaise and four. The banker started in pursuit, and gained on the runaways When pursuer and pursued were flying through Cumberland and the young lovers had almost been overtaken. Lord Westmorland stood up in his post chaise and. with unerring hand, shot the leading horse in the banker’s vehicle, which thereupon overturned. The eloping pair reached Gretna Green, whore they wore married by tli«« village blacksmith. The banker never forgave them, and his immense fortuni' was loft to the first child. Lady Fane, who married George Villiers, Earl of Jersey. At the battle of Edge Hill, the centre of the Royal line was in the rear of Upton House, at a distance of abuul 11- miles. SIX YEARS’ BILL I FAMILY COSTS GUARDIANS FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS. BRISTOL, April 9. “You arc shamelessly lazy,” said the chairman of the Bench here to-day when Frederick Williams, 49, was sentenced to six months’ hard labour. It was stated that Williams’ sole contribution towards the maintenance of his wife and children during six months was one shilling. He was too lazy to work or to seek work, and ha I received nearly £5OO from the guard ians in six years. The children were kept by the wife, who worked, but when she was ill Williams would not even fetch coal ur hang up the washing for her. THE MODERN TREND TROUSERS WILL SOON REPLACE SKIRTS. NEW YORK, April 7. Women will probably be wearing trousers in a few more months and they will be a welcome substitute for skirts, says Mrs Clarrie Chapman Cult in an article appearing in the April issue of the Forum Magazine. “Panties peeping beneath short skirts already indicate the trend,” says 1 Mrs Catt. The writer adds that “every woman might as well carry u sandwich board bearing the advertise ment, ‘See My Legs,’ as to wear cham pagne-coloured stockings.”