NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1921, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

BANDITS’ £56,000 HAUL. MARSEILLES, May 7

Armed and masked bandits carried otit a claring coup in the Arene quarter of the .city at 2 o’clock tills afternoon, when they robbed a cashier of. the P.L.M. Railway Co. of £56,000.

The cashier, a trusted servant mimed Paul Lautier, was driving in a horse cab with an assistant, Louis Olivier, toward the port, where ho was going to -pay out money to the workmen. Just as the cab was pulling up outside Avene Station 8 armed men, who had been following in a motor-car, sprang out and, pulling out revolvers, opened ■’rapid fire. Two shatchod the satch&l , from the- cashier. !• In thehscufflo, Lautior, who was armed,, fired (i shots at the bandits as .taeV dashed -off down tilt? road. His, ,'jfksistnnt, Olivier, was wounded. T'V’q: l^asscrs-liy.were hit, and theyhorse, of the cab was riddled with bullets. Policemen and many people who bad seen the attack took up* the cluisc. The bandits, who, it-; is thought, had long'waited . their opportunity, got ■away itl a waiting motor-car. Two are believed to-have been wounded by bantier's shots. ; * * GIRL’I^£2OO HOAX. - > NEW YORK, May 7 A IG-.vckrs-oid girl, Dorothy Miller, ■ who nut# a few (lays ago, when' * she found if ./convenient to disappear, lived at Trenton, New Jersey, recently iviote a patiy ie letter to the New YbrlvEvehvhgXol%> which slie offered herself iifjhiarriiige, when 18, io any man who w add give, her £2OO for an operation ;/>yi,ic-h. was -the sole hope of saving her Sgiiettier’s life.- . Oi resold ay Dorothy appeared in a small parkin"a musical comedy, being introduced to tfVe audience by the manager, who, amid apphtuse, gave a •brief statement of her story. Her salary was fixed at £2OO, a week. The police now announce that they •have from California that .Mrs Miller'and Dorothy are well known ' in the. State, where too they “worked” their scheme with complete success. • -' HIS PERSIAN WIFE. PARIS, May 3.

, Mine. ’Jamba Moussaiof, wife of a Persian diamond merchant, made a dramatic, entry into the famous Jewellers’- Club in file Rue Cadet with-, a little .silvery revolver in her hand. Tables were knocked over and precious stones fell to, the giotind. Slu caught sight of her husband seated in a* corner and shot him twice. He was only slightly wounded. His wife was taken, weeping, to the •politfo station. She said that she was married in Persia at the age of 10 «nd had accompanied her husband to Jerusalem. There, slie alleged, he abandoned her last year with her 5 children. She. had saved sufficient money to follow him to Paris, and because, she said, he refused to give her any money she rejsolved to shook iMto*.