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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1922, Page 4

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EXPKjR] EX OK BUSHED. CARTERTON, June 14

Allan tA. Millions, who was lost on Mount Hei tor was found .this morning nt Tauherenikati lint, badly frost bitten, and unable to give an account of his doings, by Knows Kime, who left him at the lint and went for assistance. Holloa was without matches cr fire for three days. Yosscler ami Wilson left the hut at one o’clock in the morning at Mount Alpha, searching for Kime. Tre age a r left at seven o’clock following up. Scadilon and another brought Bollons to Woodside, the latter walking slowly and with difficulty. lie takes train for Wellington.

HOSPITAL. ECONOMY. PALMERSTON NORTH MOVES. PALMERSTON X., June 12 At a meeting of tlic Palmerston North Hospital Hoard. Mr J. A. Nash, ALP., moved.that an eeonomy committee he set tip consisting of the chairman,. Sir .Tames Wilson, Messrs Hornhlov, Vincent, Pyej j o ; ft, Tlraimvcll, and •Mrs Abraham, and the.mover, the committee to confer with the matron and report to the Hoard. The speaker remarked that €50,000 was spent on new buildings at the hospital during the past leu years, and that the questions were continually being asked at meetings of the contributing local Indies . concerning the enormously-increas-ed levies. The time was ripe, said Mr Nash, for looking into the expenditure. He was sure the new matron would welcome anything in the direction of economy in the running of the hospital. Sir James Wilson: She is doing that now! Mr Nash: ham not denying that, hut we should help her. He pointed to maintenance, coal and the use of gas as instances of where economies might he ofFccted. Again, only 10 per cent of the patients' fees were collected. Mr V ineent. seconded the motion, lie considered that Wellington's lead might he followed in the appointment of a secretary-manager. Mr 11. W. Smart said people did not fear that money was being squandered. hut they wanted lo know why the levy had risen 100 per cent in a few yen i s. The motion was carried.

JUVENILE OKI I 'ENDKRS. SAD SCENE IN COURT. WELLINGTON, .June 12. Three juvenile highwaymen chiii<* up Iselore Air I l ’. K. limit, S.M., nt the Juvenile Court on Saturday. Two of them were aged eleven years, mid the third ndinitted being lllirteeii.

The story told the court was of a third hoy of eleven, a very wee laddie, who was sent a message with a tenshilling note. In Coromandel street he was ae>osted l»v the hand of desperadoes, who ordered him to “stand and deliver.” Two of them held him, while the third went through his pock. ts, and tool; the money.

r l lie three hold, had hoys presented a very sorry appearance, indeed, all milling into tears when they learned that they were to receive a thrashing, while a mother of one of them had to he removed from the court on account of her hysterical outburst, and was left to sob io the silence of the passage. “This lad of yours lias done the same thing twice before,” remarked the magistrate to the father of the most controlled of the trio, “lie’s getting a third chance, and I ran assure you that there are many magistrates in this country who would take him away from you until he is twentyone and send him to Weraroa.”

The lads were ordered to lie handl'd over to the police to receive twelve strokes of the liircli each.

LONG ACHE .MURDER. THE WANGANUI ARREST. WELLINGTON. June 12. In connection with the murder of a Chinaman nr Long Acre (Wanganui), reported by the Piess Association, tic investigations which the police have b.-en making since tile murder of the elderly Chinaman. Chow Vat, at Long Acre on the evening of .May 31st. culminated in the arrest of Louis James Tidily, aged 55 a Hungarian by nationality,, and a labourer by occupation, at Lis homo at Wanganui East.

The arrest was effected by DetectiveS'ergeant D. Cameron, who was accompanied by Detective-Sergeant Qtiirkc, Detective Nuttnll and Cnnstaldc Henley. The accused man submitted quietly to arrest, and bad nothing to say when charged with murder. ACCUSED IN COURT.

Accused is a man of small stature. When escorted to and t'roin the courthouse mi Saturday morning by SeniorSergeant 1.0 ridel I and Constable I). Wilson, bis eyes were little higher than the elbows of these two stalwarts. In the court, Told.v was not embarrassed. In fact, lie smiled when charged.. He appeared in a (raved blue coat, a collarless shirt, a waistcoat green with age and light-coloured dungarees extensively patched. An old soft hat and a pair of tail limits completed his garb. Messrs E. F. Li IB on and C. M. Crosswalk J.T’.’s, were on the bench and agreed to (lie police request for an adjournment till this week. To lily w'. well known at Wanganui K.i-t, where lie lived by himself in a wliarc at Salisbury avenue, lie had been about twenty years in New 7.e,i----laud. and lias been about this district for a number of years, lie has workid oh the wharf, for the Wanganui County Council, and fur Kwong Chong at the market garden at Long Acre. THE ROLTCK THEORY.

From the time of the murder Detoc-tive-Scrgi ant Cameron and the staff associated with him, have had a strenuous time, a large number of promising elti: s were pursued only to he dropped, and a thorough seareli was made of the Long Acre district. In the vicinity of the habitation where the unfortunate Chow Yat lived, a painstaking seareli was made for anything in the nature of either linger prints or foot prints, although in the latter respect the poll :e were greatly handicapped by rain that fell the morning after the murder. On one occasion additional police joined in a thorough search of the hush on Gordon Park, for it was in that vicinity on the road that the body was found.

Right from tho start- the police thought the murder was not the work of a stranger to the district, as it was obvious that the murderer followed the unfortunate Chinaman down the Kailua tint road to fire the fatal shot in order to prevent him revealing his assailant’s identity. In that direction lived a. resident who was friendly with Climv Yat. It seemed that tho old Chinaman was making for his friend’s place for help when his end came.

The police have yet some investigations to make, mul when their chain of evidence is fuljy completed it will he presented.