NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1922, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

JEWELS LOST IN LINER. NEW YORK, May 20.

The mysterious disappearance of her jewels, which she values at £40,000, during a voyage from France in the United States liner Peninsular Slate, has been reported to the New York police bv Mine. Lnmprecht von Petschenko, the wife of a wealthy Polish paper manufacturer. Mme. Petschenko, whose first husband, a professor of bacteriology at Petrograd University, was killed by the Rolslipviks, has come to this country to raise funds for the benefit of starving Russian intellectuals. She describes how during the voyage she made the acquaintance of a “charming man from Chicago.” One day after she had worn the jewels at dinner the previous evening Mme. 1 ots(•honko, having no pocket in her coat, asked this “charming man” to carry her kevs and handkerchief for her while thev walked on deck. When they sat down to rest her companion went below saving that he wanted to get his pipe. He returned after a lengthy absence. Mme. Petsehonko opened her trunk shortly afterwards and found the jewels ‘ The whole shin was searched as well as tho effects of the “man from Chicago,” but no trace of the missing valuable lias vet been found. The man from Chicago indignantly protested his innocence, and in the absence of further evidence he has not been detained.

[JON HUNTER'S FATE. XAIROHI, Kenya (formerly British F.nst Africa), May 2(1 C'npt. Georfie Outram, professional big-gnmo hunter and African pioneer, has died from wounds received in fightinjr lions. He was in charge ol a small shooting expedition near the Tanganyika border on behalf of Mr W\ngus, an Australian, when the party surprised four lions in the scrub. Shots dispersed the animals, ami tlio track of a wounded lioness was followed by the party. Suddenly the lioness charged iim ' f° r Angus, who hit her through the neck and 1 turned her in her course. As she | swerved Mr Angus hit her again in the stomach, but she reached a native, mauled him. and then dragged Outram into the bush. Angus approached to within five yards of the brute and shot her dead. . The partv were a long way Ironi tne railway, and Mr Angus’s experiences with two delirious men, struggling thrum'll the bush in a pouring rain a night, with another wounded lion still in~the neighbourhood, was unnerving. It, took nearly three days to reaeli Momhasn, and there Mr Outram died in hospital. . . . The dead hunter joined Mr Che > K carton in his expedition with a kino, ma camera throughout East Africa, afterwards lecturing with the films n England. On one occasion while b< was hunting in the Congo his ribs were crushed h.v a wounded elephant.