NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1921, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL

HER THIRD HUSBAND. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. The New York Times announces that Mrs May Brady Harriman, wife of Mr Herbert Harriman, a member of the wealthy family of shipping and railway magnates, is petitioning for a divorce. The grounds of the action are stated to he alleged neglect to provide for her. Mrs Harriman has been three times married. Her first husband, Mr Robert Stevens, died in 1895, leaving her a large fortune. In 1902 she married a retired British officer, Major Charles Spencer Hall, in London, when she was given away by Mr Joseph H. Choate, the then American Ambassador. Her return here with her husband caused a considerable stir. They remained only one season, when they returned to England to take up their permanent residence.

About three years later, however, Mrs Hall returned to New York alone. In 1917 she obtained a divorce on the grounds of non-support. Major Hall also obtained a divorce in England 18 months afterwards. Mrs Hall married her present husband at Newport in i9lB. NERVOUS FAUST. VIENNA, Fdb. 28. The police were called in to restore order at the Opera House hero last night, following fighting in the pit and stalls caused by the failure of a young tenor, Eisenberg, from Prague, to make himself heard as Faust owing to stage fright. A very loud-voiced Mephistopheles completely drowned the tenor. The spectators’ derision developed into violent scrimmages. After the management had apologised for Eisenberg’s cold, and summoned Piccavor, the Viennese tenor, from the audience to replace him, the performance proceeded satisfactorily.

BOY’S £150,000 THEFT. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. William Dalton, the 17-years-old clork, who walked out of a Chicago bank where he was employed with £150,000 worth of negotiable securities, was arrested at Heyworth, a small town 30 miles from Chicago, yesterday. He told the detective who captured him that he decided to rob the hank after reading how a young bank clerk, tried for theft, was discharged on the grounds that the bank was responsible for his crime because they paid him a wretchedly small salary, tnus subjecting him to undue temptation. Dalton was recognised from a newspaper picture by a man with whom he was playing billiards. The man opened Dalton’s satchel and bundles of bonds dropped out. “Dalton didn’t turn a hair,” the man told the police. “He just put the cue back in the rack and asked, ‘Well, what’s next?’ ”

DEATH SENTENCE ON EX-SOLDIER TORONTO, Feb. 28. ■ The Ontario Parliament to-day discussed the case of Charles Tellett, an ex-soldier of the first Canadian Contingent, who lies in Wandsworth Gaol,! London, sentenced to death for the murder of his sister-in-law, Mrs Askew, a war widow, of Haydock-road, North Camberwell. The Government will cable the British authorities asking for a new trial or a commutation of the sentence. Tellett’s former comrades in France declare they have no doubt that he is mentally deranged as the result of his war wounds. He has written to one chum here asking him to adopt his 12-years-old son, adding: “There doesn’t ijeem much to live for—everybody selJ fish M j Newspaper readers here have started : a subscription for his children, j Tellett, who is 39, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on February 10. He ! shot his sister-in-law on December 29 and wounded himself. A petition for his reprieve has been sent to the Home , Secretary by his former workmates in the Naval Ordnance Department at ; Woolwich Arsenal stating their conviction that his mind was unhinged. He ; was invalided from the Army after two I years in France suffering from shrapnel ; j wounds in the head, insomnia, and de- • | lusions. | £I,OOO SNATCH. PARIS, Feb. 28. In broad daylight yesterday afler- > | noon, in the fashionable Avenue Mar--1 ceau, near the Arc de Triomphe, a well- ,• dressed man snatched a pearl necklace worth £I,OOO, from the neck of Mine. 1 Germaine Andriveau, as she was about to step into a motor car. The chaffeur chased the man and cap--1 fared him. The necklace was in his pocket, but the thread had snapped and three pearls were missing. The man ’ said he was an out-of-work Italian - tailor. J YOUTH “GLAND.” I .JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 2S .Ur Ben Knott, an aged and wealthy r farmer, arrived the other day at the f surgery of Dr Clarence Andrew, of Pie- ,, tersburg, Northern Transvaal, leading a big baboon on a chain. t | He asked the doctor to perform Voro- . noff’s gland operation. Dr Andrew took him to the hospital and put him under chloroform. The doctor shot the ba--0 boon at the door of the operating-room, removed its gland nnd inoculated Mr ... Knott with it.

The farmer returned, to his property and declares that he feels quite Touig again. His failing sight lias been re stored —lie can read without glasses.