LATE MAIL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1920, Page 4

LATE MAIL NEWS.

PRISON. ROMANCE. NEW YORK, Feb. 24.

A school teacher who fell in love with a convict she met while making her rounds as a prison visitor in Sing-Sing Gaol has just announced her marriage to the former prisoner, who was liberated on ticket-of-leave through her efforts.

The bride is Miss Mary Fairchild, now head mistress of the elementary school at Forest Hills, a model village suburb of New York. The former convict whi is now her husband is Henry Hoppe, who was once a confectioner and was sentenced in 1915 to three year imprisonment on a number of charges, including burglary and the illegal cairy_ ing of weapons,.. After Miss Fairchild had met Hoppe several times in prison she became convinced that lie was repentant, and honestly desired to became a good citizen. She set to work, and after several months induced the Governor of New York State to pardon him. He had then served two years of his sentence. But on his release he was immediately rearrested by the .police on the old charge of burglary. Miss Fairchild appeared in court and again pleaded for him. She told the judge that she had promised Hoppe that she would marry him. The judge thereupon discharged the prisoner under suspended sentence. Miss Fairchild put her lover on three years’ parole, which ended last week, when the two were married. STRUGGLE WITH BOGUS DETECTIVE.

LONDON, Feh 24. Posing as a detective, a powerfully built man believed to be an ex-soklier, created an exciting disturbance in a busy Glasgow street late on Saturday night. He “arrested” a man and forced him to walk along the street. When the captive tried to free himself-the bogus detective is stated to have drawn a revolver and fired several shots, olio of which wounded an onlooker in the thigh. . Thousands of people were coining from entertainment houses at the time and several young men closed with the armed man, and after an exciting struggle, pinned him down until the police arrived and arrested him. During the stampede several women fainted, while others were knocked down and slightly injured.