CONTINENTAL CRIMES AND SENSATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1907, Page 13

CONTINENTAL CRIMES AND SENSATIONS.

BCBIED JEWELS. s>be £5300 worth of jewellery concealed by the man Lukosehek, arrested for the theft of £300 worth of gems from merchants in Essen, was discovered in a remarkable manner on Wednesday, May 15. Lukoschek had declared that he buried his booty in a cemetery, but on Wednesday morning a dog was seen scratching up the earth and barking in a cornfield near the cits - - The ground was examined, and the parcel of jewellery was discovered in the hole the dog had made. A FAIHEE'S SACRIFICE. The Nancy correspondent of the "Petite Republique" telegrajghs that a rich English landowner named Francis Seheverdt (?), while motoring through Laneuveville, near Nancy, on Monday, May 13, en route for Baden Baden, came upon some children playing in the road. He sounded his horn without effect, and the father of one of the children, who was standing by and believed his son to be in danger, threw himself in front of the car, which ran over the unfortunate man, inflicting terrible injuries. He was picked up by the motorist and conveyed with all possible speed to the hospital.

Seheverdt gave a liberal sum to the family of the dying man, for whom he did everything possible, and his generous and humane conduct was favourably commented upon by the inhabitants.

AMERICAN ADVENTURER "WHO BOBBED HIS FLANCEE. The Zurich police have arrested Charles Barnstael, of Chicago, on a charge of defrauding a young girl of Munich of £3250. Some time ago BarnstaeL, who Is of smart appearance, arrived in Municn, and soon after made the acquaintance of a yonng girl of good family and social position. The two became engaged, and then Barnstael managed to get from his fiancee some £3250 for the purpose, ne declared, of depositing it in the bank. Be promptly disappeared with the money, and ■went to Zurich, -where he posed as an American millionaire. Under the assumed name of Charles Gonta, of San Francisco, he took private apartments and bought an expensive motor car. Meanwhile a re-ward of £150 had been offered for information about the adventurer, and the German police, co-operating with the Zurich police, established the identity of Gonta with that of the disappearing BarnstaeL ' When arrested Barnstael still had £2450 in his possession. OLD LOVES STABS THE NEW. A sad story has just come to light In Paris of a glazier who made a murderous attack on the fiance of his former sweetheart. They were shortly to be married, and had been at a ball together when the glazier followed them home and nearly stabbed his rival to death. The glazier and the girl had been on intimate terms for some time, and seemed to agree well together. But when he lost his occupation, and took no steps to find another, thinking that the girl would keep him by her earnings, she thought it was time to put an end to their friendship. She left him suddenly, and found a situation with a wine shop keeper and coal dealer, who soon appreciated her thrift and devotion to duty, and proposed to marry her, and she consented. Bat her former lover, hearing- of her prospects, sent her threatening letters- He said he would compel her to return to him, and, if necesary, he would till her fiance. The other evening both went to a ball given by one of their friends. While there the young woman saw her former lover enter the halL She told her companion about it, and added that she felt sure he meant mischief, as he never took his eyes off her. They agreed to leave the hall at once and to return home by a circuitous route. The glazier, however, followed them secretly, and hurrying on ahead, concealed himself in a doorway in a street -where he knew they wonld have to pass. As soon as they approached, he rushed out from the dark and stabbed the wine shop keeper !n the neck and side of the head with a dagger. The man was stunned and fell to the ground unconscious, while the assailant took to flight, bnt was afterwards arrested. The wotmded man was picked up and conveyed to the hospital in a hopeless condition. MOLESTISG KXNG EDWiED. An interesting trial toot place in May at Vienna of a married couple who were accused of molesting King Edward during his visit last year to Marienbad. A Vienna police commissioner, -who -was specially appointed -to look after the King's safety and prevent his being annoyed by impertinent curiosity, remarked on 6 that a visitor, accompanied hy a woman, stared unceremoniously at His Majesty, who was seated on a bench under the colonnades The commissioner politely requested the couple to move on, and as they refused to leave the spot, he asked a Marienbad policeman to -take the name and address and nationaUty of the stranger. '.The latter angrilydeclared that the commissioner had no right to order him to leave the colonnades, and said that the next time it occurred he would give him a box on the ear. For this threat (says the Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph"! the visitor -was sentenced by the Marienbad magistrates to a fine of 200 kronen, or five days' imprisonment, for insulting the police authorities. He made no appeal against the sentence, but when the matter came to the knowledge of the German Procurator in Vienna he raised an objection to the sentence, as the insulted police official had not been present at the time the threat was uttered. At the Vienna trial the sentence was annulled, and the man acquitted. IN THE LION'S CAGE. Madame Merelli. famous for her adventurous journey to Brazil on the yacht Caiarina, in company with Jean Gallay, has had a very serious accident in a lion's cage. She was preparing, under the direction of the lion tamei March, a sensational stage appearance in what was to be called the "Wild Beasts' Boudoir." Her part was to lie on a divan with lioness crouched on each side of her. The rehearsal of the scene had gone on well several times, when, on the last occasion, one of the lionesses lost her temper, and, standing up. clawed Madame Merelli fiercely on the left hip. The lion tamer, March, who was present at the rehearsal, promptly intervened and saved her life. Madame Merelli was in agony with pain, and after her injuries were attended to Dy a doctor, she was taken to her home, where she remains confined to her room.