NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1922, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

A GRIM FIND. NEW YORK. July 15. Reaching into some brushwood for a lost hall yesterday a caddie at the Rolling Road Golf Club at Baltimore touched wliat proved to be the nude body of a woman. TO,, players who answered t ie hoy s cries found that the woman had been shot, stabbed, strangled and clubbed. Her throat also bad been cut. Beside the body was a long silken card, a blue handkerchief, and a coral earring. On the road a mile away detectives soon after found a woman’s battered bat, a man’s cap bearing bloodstains, and a coral earring which was the fellow of that found by the body. Inside the woman’s hat was a torn fragment of a newspaper of reeent date published at Fairmnunt. AYest A'irginin. The victim of the crime, which the police believe to lie the work of a maniac, is a good looking girl about 25, of fair hair. In the adjacent grass were traces of a struggle and also marks apparently made by the wheels of a motor-cycle and side-ear. Residents of a house near hv state that they hoard screams coining from the direction of tlie golf links in the early morning.

DETECTIVE SHOT. LONDON, July (i. A shooting affray, in which a de-tective-sergeant was wounded in the left leg, took place in Blcuheim-rond. Holloway, N., yesterday morning. About 11.30 Detective-Sergeants Beasley and Hobbs went to a. shop in A.sliley-road, where they found two bicycles which they believed had been stolen. They arrested a man named Arthur Farmwortb, of Snlterton-road, Holloway, on a charge of stealing them. Beasley took charge of the man and Hobbs wheeled the bicycles. ‘At the corner of Blenheiin-road and JTonisey-road, within three minutes’ walk of Holloway police station. Fnrmswnrth, it is alleged, attempted to free himself from the detective’s grasp. There was a short struggle, during which Farmsworth, it is stated, pi lik'd a seven-chambered revolver from his pocket and fired. Beasley grappled with the man and threw him to the ground, but Farmsworth, according to the police report, continued to fire. Sergeant Hobbs released his hold of the bicycles and ran to his coinrndo’is help.

CIVILIAN HELP. “Carry on,” said Beasley “1 am shot ”

Beasley was evidently very weak and Hobli.s got bob I of I-'arins-.vurtb, pinned him to the- ground, and tried to take the revolver away from him. He locked Farmsworth’s arm, hut could not reach his hand. A civilian ran up and seized the weapon. Several policemen who came up secured both Farmsworth and the revolver. Beasley was badly wounded and was taken in a motor-car to St Thomas's Hosptal. S.E., where it was found that a bullet had entered his left leg and it is thought penetrated to the bone In all six shots bad been bred but fortunately only one of them took effect. Tlie revolver is n AVebley,Scott, and one live cartridge remained in it. At the police station Farmsworth was charged with leloniously shooting Sergeant Beasley with intent to minder him, and he will he brought up at North London Police Court to-day.