NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1922, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

[nv TKLEUKAI’II —PKII PIIEBB ASSOCIATION] BABY A COUNT FOR 15 MONTHS. BERLIN, Nov. 8 A baby 15 months old lias just ceased to be a count and lias become a plain commoner. It started lite as the soil of an unmarried mother but was bought for £SO by a countess, who pretended it was her own. Her husband was overjoyed when his wife telegraphed him from Berlin that he Had an heir and the child as doing well. Unhappily the child’s real mother had registered its birth and the fraud was discovered, 'i esterday the nurse who sold it was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.

RECTOR’S TRAGIC MISTAKE. LONDON, November 8. A coroner’s jury at Exeter yesterday ni recording a verdict of accidental death censured the Rev. E. Brnmwell, rector of Uplyme, Lyme-Regis, who, while driving a motor-car, knocked down and killed a woman and her 5vears old daughter who were standing Leslie a motor omnibus which they had just left. The woman was speaking to the conductor of the omnibus about her lost purse when Mr Bramwell’s car came along at a sped which tlie conductor estimated at 35 miles an hour. Mr Brannvel’s explanation was that in putting on the foot brake to avoid a collision he accidentally slipped his foot on to the accelerator pedal.