JERMAN IN ENGLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1922, Page 2

JERMAN IN ENGLAND

EXTRAORDINARY WAVE SWEEPS COUNTRY; IUSTKAUAN AM) N.Z. CABLfc ASSOCIATION. LONDON, March 11. An oxtiaonlinarv clinic wave is sweeping over England, including many mysterious murders, which are baffling the police. Prominent among the crimes are illicit love affairs. Some are ending in double suicides, and others in murders.

Within the past fortnight, several such cases have been reported. The wife of a prominent .Manchester business man ran off with a skating rink instructor, and the pair occupied a cottage in a Hampshire village as a honeymoon couple. They were not seen for several days, after which the police discovered their dead bodies in a bedroom.

Another couple, a married man and a single woman, made a double suicide pact, took poison and entered the sea at Southend. The man was drowned, but the woman cheated death. A married curate and his lover drank poison in champagne at a Nottingham hotel, and both died. Another inexplicable affair was a case wherein two lovers were eloping in a train when suddenly the man shot the girl and turned tile weapon on himself. He expired, but the girl was not seriouslv hurt.

There Lave been numerous gas tragedies, wherein couples have died together. An unmarried mother at Chelsea, and her two sons, died from gas ! poison. Tiie verdict against the woman was suicide and double murder. A verdict of murder was returned against a young man who was accused j of, strangling a girl at Biixton with a silk stocking. A labourer was sentenced to death for murdering a woman of 79. an old age pensioner of Holborn. A youth was similarly sentenced for murdering his fiancee at Clapton and a boy is awaiting trial for giving his father a fatal blow after the latter struck his mother.

A widow of 59, living alone at Henley, on the Thames, who was in constant drtead of a man residing abroad was found murdered. The police suggest that deceased met the murderer while travelling either to Canada or to Australia. On the day preceding thie tragedy, she left instructions regarding her money. A sensation of moment eonerns the death of a beautiful girl, a West End dancer, who was believed to be a victim of the drug habit; and the death of another girl in connection with which a married airman is apprehended.