BODY IDENTIFIED.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1924, Page 2

BODY IDENTIFIED.

WELLINGTON, Fob. o. The body found in the harbour on Sunday has been identified as that of Joseph Bowman, a single man, formerly employed as a steward on theGovernment steamer Hinetnoa. Bowman has been missing from home since Saturday. He had no relatives in the Dominion.

TRAGIC GUN PLAY. LONDON. February 4. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says:—Tragic illustrations of the laxity of the law regarding the sale of firearms continue. Alice Delort, a dressmaker who two years ago. s . sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for firing a revolver in the street, fired five shots in the Boulevard do Madeleine during the busiest, shopping hours of Saturday night. Three people fell seriously wounded. The polite with difficulty, saved the woman from being lynched. She said that she was surrounded with enemies, so she decided to kill the lot! None of the wounded had ever seen the woman Delort before. One has two bullets in. fri>C stomach; the second has a bullet in his liver, and the third a bullet ill the chest.

Ti. another district, a Iwttle merchant shot and killed a neighbour under the delusion that his neighbours were stealing his safe. Three loaded guns and a revolver were found in the man’s rooms when the police entered by means of bullet proof shields.