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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 April 1914, Page 2

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MITvDEK OF MKS MILLAIU)

(Times Sydney Sun Service). Vancouver, April IS

Tack Kong, the Chinese servant, who is charged with tin , murder of Mrs Millard, wife of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s agent at. Vancouver, has been committed for 1 rial and has reserved his defence.

It is believed that lie will- repudiate the verbal confession made to the police, in which lie said that he committed the act in sejf-de-fenee, when Mrs Mil lard threatened to cut his ear off when he refused to make the porridge that she liked, because if he stopped it would make him late for school. Kong said that he burned the bodv in the furnace because he thought that Mr Millarfl would kill him when he came home. Throughout .the hearing the accused sat quite unconcernedly, and the only punishment, he seems to dread is deportation. 'Even when the skull and bones and some of the half-burnt flesh of the victim were produced he took no notice. Mr Milliard .is well-known to Australian travellers, as he goes down to the wharf at Yancouver. to meet all incoming ships from Sydney. He had gone to meet one of the Union Company's vessels when the murder was committed. The murderer afterwards cut the body up and burned it in the furnace used for heating the house. PULLING ROOSEYELT'S LEG New York, April 18. A London man who recently arrived here from Brazil brought with him the story of how exPresident Roosevelt, who is on a hunting and exploring trip in South America was made the hero of a carefully stage-managed discovery. Just before Roosevelt got to Brazil his hosts and J;heir friends met and caMed in tlie services of the best explorers and geographers in that part of the world, with the idea of fixing up a plan so that the Colonel should not come back from his trip without discovering something. It was arranged that when Roosevelt started for the jungle he was to be accompanied by the explorers who were prepared for the task. By easy, natural stages he was to be led to the banks of a stream where the. explorers were to exclaim with wellfeigned emotion "This rTver has never been charted : it must be a new stream which you have had the , honour of discovering." "Despatches from Brazil which have already been received stated (hat the river was "discovered," but whether it was named Theodore or not has not yet been made known. "JTEIM': GOES NOTHING." New York, April 18. Mr Chris Wolf, a wealthy Chicago merchant, shot himself dead a day or two ago because he was what his business associates called a "piker." He committed Wic deed after writing a lonir letter complaining of the lack of business. He declared tlmt ho had had a "yellow sireak" all his life, and he added. "Take my body and havr it cremated, and when Oic nsli'os are scattered to the hree/.e say Here goes nothing-' "