NEWS BY MIL

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1921, Page 1

NEWS BY MIL

SNAKES TO HKI.I’ SM EGG KEGS. I’EKIN', July 2b. The danger attendant on examining steamers for opium owing, to the unscrupulous methods of the opium smugglers is shown by the discovery on hoard a Chinese steamer from Wucltow cleared for Hong-kottg of sixty 'poisonous snakes which had been put in baskets containing parcels of opium. The smugglers’ idea was apparently to frighten inquisitive Customs men unity from the consignment. DEAD GIIIE ON SEAT. PA BIS, July 2b. The body ol a beautiful voting woman of about, •_>.') was found by the police this morning, seated upright on a bench ill the finis do Boulogne, with' a bullet wound in tlm heart. |)r Paul, the medical export, states that' he believes it to he a case of suicide. The woman, who was evidently an habitue of the night resorts of Paris, was stiifering from an incurable disease. The revolver which caused her death cannot he found. Her handbag abo is missing. Her right hand was found clem bed with smile slight abrasions, and it is thought, that alter she had committed suicide the revolver must have been wrenched from tier hand by a passer-by. AVI EE’S 1! IV AE. I'ABIS. July 2b. Hearing that her husband used In go to town to see a girl. Mme. Germaine Pointier, wife of a farmer near Gniscard. Aisue Department, obtained, by stealth, her rival’s address. Next day. having fixed up a rendezvous in her husband's name by telejjrani, she went, to Paris. When she saw the young woman she lin'd hvo shots al, her with a revolver. The girl seized her arm and wrestled with Imr desperatelv to such good effect that all the spots missed. The angry wife was pruini u 1 v arrested and is now in prison awaiting trial. "tiloT GAS” EOG IT>l ICE. NT,A YOKE. July “7 Tie clfcetivene.'s of llm new “riot ga».“ an invention of an oHiror in tlm Pnited Stales Army Chemical Warlare Service. va» d'-moii-i rated ycster.lav. when :'!H Philadelphia poli.-elin-n, i a(|ui radin .; as an obstreperous mob. were pot to llight by a handful of their i omrades, re| resent ing the Cuvs Ol Inv and order, equipped with gasbombs.

The gas i- of a lachrymaloi \ l> pe. f 1 i- not ooisomuis, 101 lre ode; - l two w! inhale il helol"-- for a few miin- „ _ Tlmit eves i Imu v. eter lor m • time. The "Us leaves brown -tai"- on lie clothing of the victims, making, i! ca-v to identify tlm.-" wlm have been present at a riot.

TISSUES GIVING KHH EYEH I’AHIS. July ’-’7. |)r \ jexis Canvl. Ihe Ki'tim'ii.American fioio:: i-t. has. a.'cording to the At a I in. ||. ill. lie ! rale.l ibal u--ees call live -op,irately from the body to v. hu h I ),e\ 10l im fI.V belonged. and tie V call be 'made to lire lor dor.

Nine years ago. it i- -aid. Dr C.O'i'e! look sixteen fragments ol tlm heat.', ol ehiekeit aged eight days and kept them in a special culture.

'Pin tissues colli in lied to live and d*'v eh ip. and one of them i- still bring'fids fragment is now in the t arc of Dr E. 1.1 ing. wlm ha- taken over Cat r. 1f\jh riiin‘iils.

Kvt*ry fort y-oiolil lumrs it .oo\v> from four to forty times it- si/o. and |,as in I,e trimmed down.

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A murder of nn unusually Hi" , hara ter. which oeeiii'cid dut.nj the ck-end ill a hedri in •' Ei-erpmil lodging-house, wn - discovered hit.- on W'edi I'sdiiy light.

I 1,,, victim was Mary Mael.eir/m. I'k a -ingle woman, who lived at S.iPllg--1,1,1 ’ Soho-st leel . I.ivel'peol. a!.-o a lodging-house. Her body was found under the bed of a mail, who was known as John Brown. ,n the Hrortn-lov.-str, el house.

The woman's throat had h-m ■"t t wii e. and part, of a jaggod-o.lgc d razor was found in her body. tt lit. It bad been mutilated after her i mtlling bad been slashed.

The crime was apparently I'ommiUed during last Friday night. Earlier on that, dav the woman is slated to bine told some friends that she wa- go tug to visit a mao who had promised In make some purchase- lor hot'. Si e called at the |lr.iw nlou--1 roe' hoe e and with the man went on: '■ dtnr. Apparently they retiirm'! K'c

at night, and oil Saturday mieniug jbo mail left the linil-e. hickiii ■ t!.e dnor of his roiiiit. ns was up cm -oi i. ami taKitig the k(‘,\ with him.

P I’HnCKS a HAY. DEAYI 11.1 E. JuG 2b. An American stockbroker -i 0 t alter considerable st inly l.e I,a : eac !:-

ed Iho eotlelll-ion that t" I • p ; r-y dro-seil. a woman here lias to sg ' I 1 u' lime thus : 7.\ per cent, deciding v, lat

changes to make. Bit per cent, making them. 17, per cent, unmakim them. ;ill per cent, wearing them. Mi f' 1 ' cent, undressed.

Out of IJ women under ohsen al 101 l l |,o stockbroker sax s four cb.o'gc.l t j, „■ , clot lies seven times daily. E .need , six times daily, and 21 live times dad', j 'l'li,. preatesl number ol change.- we ej those Iliad. ■ by a Ereneli actress who j was not included in the general survey. | but wlm act ually changed nine film’s in ono <lny. She dressed for breakfast, for the son bat It. for golf, for luncheon, for I tennis, and for the aperitif hour a! Die I Polioiere. for dinner and the Casino, m ,,[ for a mid night pint,or enr ride.