A CRIMINAL GANG.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1923, Page 1

A CRIMINAL GANG.

— SYDNEY. Aug. 9. Among the criminal gangs that !utv c: me from overseas to At.-irelia tieiortuimtelv seem to have been singu larly tew 'from Now Zealand. ! Now, however. New Zealand is get i ting an umlesiru! Y ad’, .a li ..qu-.a n I Mime exp.-.: to -Uiovi'-, win. .-aim- u | years ago. and luce caused a -Ur in I this Stale, in .Sydney alone it is testii mated that they had amounted for ovei ! twenty safes, ami secured some fairly : lag sums o. money. Dote: tire.- were hunting everywhere i for them, and in the end the polite ! -orroniided a house in Balmain, one i i the suburb, of I'm city, early one morning, and I 'ought r-!i‘ one oi the most important arrests in eiainec'lion with safe-blowing made ior many year-. hi Formal m. ■ D now to hand that a few nights ago a man who had been deported i’i'i in Sydney to New Zealand v. ithin l!u- last lew months, and did not land in tin' Dominion, was lound in a warehmire in Melbourne with a safeblowing kit aid a nvslel!. Wlicll in Sydney the '.an.' 'e.iU-d for many months. At List, however, r-e gang ( mini :ie J to : rank up. (bio ii on decided to go to South Africa, but . an q. oil prior to his dopariarc. that he wt - g"i>ig i > Ireland lit help the Sinn I "iiier.. He landed at (ape Town, but was arrested on nilonnation supplied by tlie police here, amt hi ought back to Australia. But the man who "as deported decided to stay hire with others, and Sydney sullered ionsiderably owing to the work ol the gang. He served a sentence oi over two years, and having had a round trip Sydney. Wellington. .Melbourne, lie has once more come into the hands ol me police.

i 1 I'M AX OSTRICH. The ease of a woman with an appetite for hoys is reported in the ‘‘British Medical Journal." Dr A. George Brand, of the Ayr Count v Hospital, was consulted by a woman, aged 27, who had had abdominal operations, and he found the j following articles in her stomach:— i Sc. v tit ecu Leys, the largest of which I ut:- three and live-eighth inches in J length, two coins .otto with a ring through it), three safety-pins tone I open), ui-t' button, one engineer’s split j pin. and Hie pencil sharpener. | She had not given the doctor the i slightest hint about her ‘'diet,” and must have been swallowing the articles for at least six weeks. She recovered. MADA.ME TESSA CD’S MODELLER. Air John Theodore Tttssaud, the famous modeller of Madame Tussaud's exhibition, has iust complete;! Ills fifty years in the studios.-The great-grand-son of the founder, he was horn in Kensington on May 2nd, 1858, and ■•I •i a ted at St. Char’cs’s College, London. He is well-known as an artist, having exhibited at the Royal Academy, and a recent volume of reminiscences dealing with the romance of Tussaud's presented a mine of interesting information oil the London of the past. Air Tits sand is likewise n recognised authority nt historical matters relating to the Ereneh Revolution and the First Em-