LATE MIAL NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1920, Page 3

LATE MIAL NEWS.

BEAR-PIT STRUGGLE. VEVEY, April 3

The hear pit at Berne was nearly the scene of a tragedy oil Good Friday, when despite the warning of the attendant a young student named Mahlers got astride tlie wall surrounding the pit and was seized by an 11-year-old bear, who mauled him terribly. The boar eventually was driven off by a firehose.

The last accident of tlie kind occurred years ago when an Englishman for a wager entered the pit and was killed.

BRANDED GIRL. NEW YORK April 3.

John Callender, a clay modeller, known on tliejnusiehall stage, has been arrested on a charge of felonious assault ’ brought by bis daughter Minnie a pretty and talented girl of 17, who alleges that he disciplined her by searing her back and shoulders with a red-hot iron mid by pricking her with hot needles and with knives.

Callender’s arrest followed several weeks’ investigation of the daughter’s complaints, by Miss Helen McCormack assistant prosecutor, Brooklyn, and the authorities of the Children’s Society. It is stated by Miss McCormack that the girl, whose present whereabouts the authorities are not revealing, was found with limbs and body horribly scarred as a result of 3,1 io. alleged treatment by her father.

Her story, according to the investigators, is that her own mother died when she was a child, and that sin- suffered extreme cruelties at tlu- hands of her stop-mother, her father not only not preventing but encouraging them. She says that she ran away from home two years ago, about the time her stepmother died, hut that Inter her lather found her and renewed the cruel practices till she appealed to the society who brought the ease to the attention of .Miss McCormack.