BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

o AUSTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CARLE ASSOCIATION. ITALIAN POISONING SENSATION. ROM K, April 23. The trial of Clothilda Cravnmi is causing a sensation, partly owing to the beauty of the accused, who is also a well-known woman in ’lurin. Since her arrest she has lost three stone in weight, hut she defended herself during the opening days with the utmost vigour, declaring that her accusers were acting under the impulse of it vendetta and that her lather-in-law, who is the principal witness, had made immoral advances which she had repul.-.cd. The trial is expected to hist a fortnight. The evidence shows that the three victims died of poisoning by corrosive sublimate. AY’hen the first child died in March 1910, the .Magistrate decided that there was no case for a jury. There was an o.Ticial inquiry when the (laughter died, under similar circumstances, hut the aged father-in-law was unwearying in his persistence and induced the police to order a post, mortem, and to tiv the wife.

GIRL JUDGE IN MOSC'OYV. LONDON. April 23. The “Daily Express” Moscow correspondent says a pretty, bobbed-hair-ed woman, in the early twenties, acted as the presiding judge tit a sensational criminal trial in the Moscow District Court,' and sentenced seven men convicted of robbery with violence to death. She is C'itizeness Anna Olnshmnn, who til traded the attention ot the Commissariat of Justice by her shrewd decisions in the Ukrainian Courts, and was invited to come to Moscow. The prisoners were a gang of highwaymen. When they faced the girl judge they boldly admitted their guilt, but Citizcuess Clushman assuming a stern countenance, delivered sentence with lull assurance, which the lawyers present said would have done credit to any male judge. MAKE FOR PE AC E. LONDON. April _(!. Lord Burnham addressing the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, said the general adoption of the Y\ hifloy C ouncils would make for peace in the great industries. Then, if it did not piodnce immediate harmony of things ns ihev were at present, it would be allowed to slide. A free hand was given the extremists to conduct campaigns with spurious uncontradicted catchwords. A MINE DISASTER. (Received tills day at 9.25 n.tn.Y LONDON, April 25. An inrush of water in .Apsdnie Pit. Staffordshire, caused another disaster. One man was killed and seven entombed. but it is believed they ire overcome by black damp and that then- r’-cuo is hopeless. There were 123 working in the pit and 115 escaped bv Menus cf tunnels driven into the pit from the hillside. The eight were working in a distant corner. Rescue parties wearing oxygen apparatus got within thirty yards of the place where the seven men were believed to be. but were driven back by heavy falls. A RIG FIRE. PARKS. April 20. Manberge arsenal was destroyed by five. The stores of guns and ammunition were saved. The damage is estimated at eight million francs.