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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1922, Page 3

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HOTEL THIEF TRAPPED. PARIS, Alav 30

AN ith the arrest yesterday in an hotel near the Opera by tin* Paris police of Jose Terol, a Spaniard, 53, who, says the European edition of tbo Now York I let-aid, has posed as •■Viscount Romero," the authorities believe they have trapped the head of an international gang of “hotel rats.” Terol was arrested by detectives who had posed for several days as employees ol an hotel whore tli Spaiiiacrd had registered. In his room the police found a voluminous correspondence in Spanish and English. translations showing that many of the letters wore reports of activities from members o' the gang. A mini I it-r of arrests an- expected. Cariying out his operations in the best hotels. Terol c hose, for preferoiiee, those which are visited by American tomists. He always engaged a good room and dressed to the part of a member of the class to which be professed to belong. From Ids room he watched tin* activities of his fellow guests, and when mams were unoccupied lie is said to I ave entered and made off with jewels and other valuables. Me remained even after the robberies were discovered, and frequently offered suggestions to the victims and to lu te 1 authorities its to the best method o'’ trapping the thief. Suspicion would not have fallen ti|w)ii him if the police l.c.d not learned that lie used to wear i bite canvas rubber-soled shoes, which they considered stiange Ic.otwear lor

one in his position. ll'.' Inis admitted t:. till l I>:)Ii•' ' |>is till!.* was fictitious and lias confessed lo several small thefts. lie conversed with the police in seven dilferen!. In it ounces, speaking English with :t t cknev accent.

SECRET GERMAN ARMS. ! HEIM.IN. May 20. \ onantity of arms has I icon found , oi'crnl al in a lonely lake near liremen. The discovery was made l>y the members of a Hreincn "Society ol the Klicnds of Nature,” who, during an excursion, hathed in the woodland lake. TI'CV were astonish d to find in the lad of the lake rifles, machine guns, gas masks, and other weapons m great numher. lit spite of their immersion the arms were in wood as thev had hern earetully covered with a thick layer of tat. They reported the matter to i 1 Piemen police, who are obviously in svmpathy with the |>ersoiis who had hidden the arms, for they tried to excuse themselves from taking action. QUEER HA HIES. EON DON. May 2!I .lust in the nick of time a lit do hatch of coral-pink eyes ironi the Argentine readied the l.ondon Zoological Gardens. Thev we ie placed in damp moss on the edge of a glass tank, and before they hail been there many hours soin • tiny snails broke the shells and took to the water with all the confidence i f young ducklinys. V 1, strictly speakiny, they aie not water creatures, hut air-hreatliiny land tl'caMires which have adapted t'lem selves to a submarine life. This is proved by the fact that the eggs unlaid and hatch out on land. Each baby is equipped with a perteet diviny oiulit life-lines, air Lube, and air pump. 'I lie life-lines are long, sensitive air tiMHi.to which sire eoilotl u]> mi (Midi sk. , I the head, unless required to transmit siyiials as to what may he within An air tube, twice as long as the snail, is shot up to the surlme now and then, and a must energetic little, pulsing pump tills the air tanks. ; hi the adult snail this air tube is about six inches long- . Thev are being fed on lettuce, wlneli suits them splendidly, and (id baby snails are thriving apace. ! Three adult snails, which came to the ! Zoo last year, have made over nn nich ot growt on their Hritish "salad diet.

TWO DEAD IN ICE. CHEVIOT*. VEVEY. -liiii(> f>. [.caving C! admen, * ll Ct.‘ Boinose Oberland, yesterday morning for the Susten l’.iss, throe young Bale students fell into a crevice' sixty feet deep. Two were killed instantly and the other was seriously injured. A search party from Wasson, live hours away, had considerable difficulty in recovering the bodies from their icy tomb. An Alpinist named Zuppinger was struck on the head bv a stone while * climbing Ibaoh. Canton Sclnvytz. and was killed. Another accident occurred near Interlaken, where a woman in attempting to i save her child from slipping down a

steep slope, fell and received fata] injuries.

VILLAGE STREET .MURDER. LONDON, Alnv 17

A broken engagement had a tragic sequel in the quiet village of Kimpton, near Andover, Hampshire, yesterday, when a young woman and her former sweetheart were killed within a lew secoilds'of eae.h other. Beatrice Emily Worsdell, 26, a cook, who was employed by Captain Leaf, of Kimpton House, had been engaged to Horace Hyde, chimney sweep, of Cobnaro, Surrey, where site was in service until April, hut the engagement was broken off early- in the year.

Ycid'orday the girl met Hyde soon after 3 p.ni. Suddenly she ran screaming to rim house in the village of Air Rose, a inbmr.sler, where she collapsed and died from a razor cut in the throat. Hyde was seen to collapse in the k*m—L and when he was picked up it was discovered he had cut his throat, almost severing the head from the body. The girl exclaimed, “Horace Ilvde did this,” liefore she died.

DIVORCE FOR .MISS ('. TALAIADGh NEW YORK, June 5.

Op the ground of “mental cruelty” Miss Constance Talitiadge, the film actress. obtained at Los Angeles to-dav .an interlocutory decree ot divorce against Mr John Pialoglcni, a rich tobacco merchant, of New York. The couple eloped in December 192!) to Greenwich, Connecticut, where they were married. Tn April 1921, Miss Talmadge said, her husband informed her that lie was tired of married life, and requested her to leave their home in New York. Site refused, and he packed his clothes and went off an ' left her. The mother of the actress, Mrs Margaret Talmadge, testified to speci-l acts of “mental cruelty.”