MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18420, 29 June 1925, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Itichard Thomas, a prisoner awaiting trial at Brisbane, snatched a razor from the hand of the gaol barber and slashed his throat. He died in a fewminutes. The sentence of death passed on Nina Krzeczkorska, by a Soviet military tribunal, has been commuted to ten years' imprisonment. AH the other appeals wero dismissed. " The Commonwealth Statistician estimated that the population ot_tn« Commonwealth at tne end of inarch was 3,904,593, an increase of 1L'7,230 for the year. The Homo correspondent of the "Daily Express" reports that an old man, 'who was gaoled because ho lived by extorting money from relatives, sought out, when released, a cousin who was a nun. She refused him money, and he imagined that the Rev. Canon Capozza was responsible for her refusal. Thb old man went to the church, found Canon Capozza praying at the altar, and fatally stabbed" him with a, dagger. He also wounded a woman who tried to prevent the murder.

At the inquest of Duddles and Edward Sarson, the jury found that Thorny Duddles had committed' suicide by poison when of unsound mind. Sarson tiicd of a gunshot wound: an open verdict, was returned. Mrs Sarson created a scene, saving that she could not understand why Duddles was allowed to have six rifles in a public building. The coroner replied that that was a matter for the police! f Duddles . and Sarson. were caretaker and assistant < caretaker • respectively of Shoreditch Public Library.]" The "Sunday Express" says that a motor-cyclist, collided at a notorious danger point with a motor-car in which Dame Clara Butt was returning: to her home from Bristol,, where she gave a concert in connexion with, a silver wedding. The car was filled with bouquets. The motor-cyclist died soon after and was sent to hospital. Two young women, Mrs Stella Moore and Miss Dej'lc, were "sleeping in a bungalow in the grounds of the .Hotel Bockingham at Perth: Miss Doyle left the room for a few minutes, and on re : turning found Mrs Moore with, a bullet wound in the face. A man was lying dead alongside the bed with a bullet 'through his head. Mrs Moore is not in a serious condition. It is stated that the dead man, her husband, crept boot'les's to the room and shot her aid himself. Some weeks ago Moore, a resident of Geraldton, informed the police that his wife was missing.' He traced hei to. Bockingham. Jealousy is the supI posed cause of the tragedy.