WORLD'S HAPPENINGS

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15011, 5 August 1922, Page 15 (Supplement)

WORLD'S HAPPENINGS

BURNED TO DEATH. Lieutenant Robert 0. Hanley of the Seventh Photographic Section, EightyEighth Squadron, and Sergeant Arthur Opperman of the same organization, both stationed at Camp Knox, were burned to death when their airplane fell near a crowd of spectators at a benefit air circus exhibition at Louisville, America. The men were in a De Haviland plane. They went the length of the field at an altitude estimated by spectators to be 300 ft. A sharp bank was made on the turn and the plane slipped and crashed to the ground, pinning the airmen under the wreckage, which burst into flames; The two airmen were first off the field and intended to photograph "stunt flying, which was to have been part of the air circus. FALL FROM THEATRE BOX. A man believed from a card in his pocket to be named John F. Danaher and about 25 years old fell from an upper box in Keeney’s Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, and was taken to the Holy Family Hospital with a fractured sku;ll. He struck Manus Duffy, 2G, and William Carlton, 30. Duffy was taken to the hospital with, a fractured thigh and fractured ribs. Carlton escaped with severe bruises. The theatre, a vaudeville and motion picture house, was in darkness during the showing of the principal picture. A thud was heard and then came screams from Duffy and Carlton. The theatre was crowded to ts capacity of 2,500 but a tendency ' to panic was averted quickly by the ushers. One directed the house electrician to throw on the lights and the others ran up and down the aisles telling all to keep their seats. The distance from the box, in the third tier, to the floor of the orchestra is about thirty-five feet. No one could be found to explain how the man happened to fall. GIRL DANCERS EXONERATED. TTo the pure all things are pure—evil to aim who evil thinks,” remarked Magistrate George Simpson in Jefferson Market Court in dismissing the charge of indecent dancing brought against four girls arrested in Murray’s Fifty-second Street Restaurant the other night. The girls, Betty Brown, 19 years old; Roberta Belmont, 19; Stella Allen 18, and Josephine Allen, 19, appeared in Court with their attorney, Mark Alter. Under their street clothes they wore the same costumes worn when arrested. Policeman Charles Herold testified that he had seen the girls dancing in bathing costumes, consisting of onepiece suits, with rolled stockings and no flesh tights covering thighs or knees. He said he was “shocked.” Asked to describe the dance he said he could not recall suitable words and he could not demonstrate it. Policeman Charles Schaufer testified that he had been “thrilled.” Attorney Alter told the Magistrate that the girls had worn flesh tights and that the dance was not indecent. He asked permission to have the girls repeat the dance in costume for the Court, but Magistrate Simpson declined. The Magistrate said there did not seem to be any evidence of indecency, as only one witness was “shocked” and the other “thrilled.” WOMAN DETECTIVE. A well-dressed woman, Mrs Jean Hughes, of Barnwell-road, S.W., was charged at Marylebone, London, with stealing a purse. Miss Alice Dufour, of Messrs Whiteley’s Inquiry Department, saw the woman attempting to open women’s handbags in the store. “I knew her,” said Miss Dufour, “and followed her along Queen’s-road, where she opened one woman’s bag, and attempted to open another. I went up to her, and said: “Just a moment, Jennie; I believe you have several purses which you have taken out of people’s bags.’ She looked surprised. “ ‘Don’t you remember me, Jennie?’ 1 said. She replied, ‘Oh! miss, let me tell you. I have had a lot of trouble,’ and later she said, ‘I cannot help it. It is in my blood.’ ” On Mrs Hughes, who was remanded, were found three purses and a notecase packed with notes. A tall, well-dressed man came forward and said to the magistrate. “I am her husband, and I understand . that the police do not object to me as bail.” Mr D’Eyncourt: I shall not grant bail, and you had better make arrangements to do without her for some time.

The husband urged that they had a baby only seven months old, but the magistrate still declined to grant bail.

WOMAN BOUND IN A CHAIR. At Highgate Police Court, London, Francis Gray, 23, agent, of Pemburyroad, Tottenham, and Archibald Trendell, 22, engineering student, of llill-drop-crescent, Holloway, were charged with stealing articles to the value of £IOO, the property of Jacob Goldsworthy, of Fortis Green-road, Muswell Hill. Mr Wells, for the prosecution, said that on January 10 in the absence of her husband Mrs Goldsworthy gave a musical party, to which the accused men were invited. The party broke up at 11 o’clock, and, Mrs Goldsworthy, being alone in the house, suggested to the defendants that they should stay for the night. They slept in the spare bedroom. After breakfast in the morning the defendants placed her in a chair, to which they hound her, and gagged her with a serviette. At she thought it was a joke. They then left the house, and she afterwards missed property to the value of £IOO. , When Mrs Goldsworthy informed the police about the affair she made a mis-statement, as she feared that her. husband would be annoyed. Instead of saying it was the guests who had committed the robbery, she said it had been done by two men who came to see to the telephone. Mrs Goldsworthy, in cross-examina-tion by Mr Groebcl, for the defence, denied that when the defendants slept at her house on another occasion she visited their room during the night. “I went in to kiss them good-night. lam a Bohemian,” she added. The witness admitted having written several loiters to Gray, and said she had been indiscreet in regard to this. She denied emphatically that she had arranged to be bound in the chair. The case was adpourned for a week.