British and Foreign

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1913, Page 3

British and Foreign

[ELECTRIC TELEGHAI'Ii, COfYIUUHT.J j [PER I'KfcSS ASSOCIATION.] I (Keceived This Day, 9.15 a.m.) THE STOLE* NECKLACE. London, Sept. 10. Mr Muir, in opening for the j prosecution in the Stolen Necklace Case, said that Gutwirth asked a relative of Brandstutter if he knew a purchaser for an article worth £IiO,pOU. Brandstatter [ guessed he meant I lie necklace, : and appeared to acquiesce. He arranged with a cousin of Quadraußtein, as a suitable assistant, to proceed with him to London, where they met Gutwilh aud Silverman and inspected three pearls. Later Grizzard and Lockett attended negotiations. Brandstatter and Cundranstein pretended to ~ return to Paris, while Price induced Spanier, a reputable jeweller, to play the part of purchaser. He bought two pearls and arranged a meeting, demanding an immediate ' bargain for the remainder. Aftor | the arrest some of Spaniel's bank notes were found on Silverman. Mr Muir added that Macarthy's part in the ail'air was obscure. CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST. ■ London, September 9. ', A man named Benjamin Jewell ( was arrested ou a charge of man- <; slaughter of his daughter. He ; relied on Christian science to cure , his daughter, who was suffering ( from diphtheria, instead of procuring a doctor. At the hearing Mr Justice Lowla tt held it is necessary to prove wilful neglect, and Jewell, though j a stupid donkey, hail not permit- j ted the daughter to wilfully die, . therefore he was not guilty of man- - sla uglier. < Addressing Jewell, the Judge , raid, "If there is anything you do ; not understand in the future for goodness sake go to a doctor." ANHONOVHABLE ACQUITTAL. Montreal, September 9. The magistrate has acquitted Jerome bonourablv on a charge of gambling. He held it was an unnecessary dignity to have placed on him,and there was no proof of the charge. (Jerome was the New York State attorney sent to secure the return of Harry Thaw, who es- < caped from an asylum. In order to cause delay charge of gambling was preferred against Jerome at the instigation of Thaw's lawyers, it having been discovered that Jerome had indulged in a frieudly game of cards with some newspaper reporters on the way to the scene of Thaw's arrest. OTTOMAN BACKSHEESH. London, Sept. 0. The Times' Constantinople correspondent says that if Foreign Ministers of the great Powers would travel incognito through the Near East they might find that , Europe as a collective entity was utterly discredited from the Adriatic to the Black Sea. Every intelligent Oriental knows that each great Power is ready to sell its European soul for Ottoman backsheesh. HEART SEIZURE WHILE PLYING. Berlin, Sept. 10. Dr. Pings, while Hying at a height of nine hundred feet, died of heart failure. His hands remained grasping the wheel, and the monoplane continued to steadily ascend. A gust changed its position, throwing the deceased's weight over the wheel, and imparted to the machine a vertical position. It fell a few minutes after Dr. Ping's death, whose hands still clasped the wheel. TOO BUSY TO ELIPT. London, Sept. 10. The Hector of South Einksey (Oxfordshire), where the Guards are manoeuvring, inserted in his Parish Magazine a warning to mothers not to let their girls abroad in the evening without an adult escort. The officers of the Guards are very indignant, and consider it an aspersion of a scandalous nature. The men, they say, have very little time for flirting. AIRSHIP MISHAP. Berlin, Sept, 10. Airship L No. 1, stationed at Cuxhaven, participated in the naval manoeuvres, and while engaged in a scouting flight, was struck suddenly amidships, by a terrible gale, and fell into the water, and thirteen were drowned, including Captain Metzing (the commander of the Naval Airship Division) and Hanne (the airship pilot), also members of thp naval commission for supervising airship trials.