NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

WIFE DIES FItOM GRIEF

LONDON, .March I

A 70-years-old man of Sunderland, Robert Foreman, had been ill for some weeks and had been nursed all the time by his wife, who was also 70.

On Sunday afternoon Mrs Foreman went into her husband’s room and spoke to him. He did not reply, and she told a neighbour that she thought lie was dead. Then she went to her own room, lay down on her bed, and died almost immediately. As a matter of fact her husband at tile time was not dead but only asleep. Rut he, too, died too hours later without learning that his wife-had died before him.

SECRET FOR TWELVE YEARS LONDON', March 5.

How a young married woman, who was displaced by her elder sister, kept her secret for twelve years, was told at the Brighton Police Court yesterday, when Stanley Cecil Dillon, a master mariner, of Hampton-on-Tham-cs, was sued for wife desertion.

Mrs Dillon said that when they were married in ICOS) her elder sister came to live with her. Shortly afterwards her husband began to neglect her and became very attentive to her sister. Cater her husband ami sister left the bouse together. She had kept her secret for twelve years, she said, because she did not wish to disgrace her sister.

Dillon was ordered to pay his wife i'2 nor week.

BLACKMAIL BY PIGEON POS’I XEW YORK, March 1

Mr William Borneck, the rich proprietor of a large shop in Long Island City, has asked for police assistance in an effort to discover the author of a novel blackmailing scheme. Two days ago a taxicab driver delivered at the door of bis private office a perforated box. When Mr Borhcrk opened the box lie was astonished to find therein a homing pigeon, with a note a dressed to him attached to one of its legs. The note warned him that if he failed forthwith to fasten a banknote for a thousand dollars to the pigeon and then release the bird, his life would be ‘'in grave danger.” The difficulty of most blackmailcs hitherto has been to discover a safe moans of receiving; the money they demand without being found out themselves. The police, nTtcr granting Air Borheck, a permit to carry a revolver, racked their brains to devise a wav of following the pigeon to the borne of the blackmailer. They have so far been unable to keen the pigeon in sight. Meanwhile the pigeon is enjoying a period of enforced leisme.

KIT K l.l'X K LAX RIVAL. XEW YORK, March I

In opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, of which until recently he was “Emperor,’' Mr William .Joseph Simmons lias now incorporated at .VLlaiilo, Georgia, the order of the Hidden Hosts of Knights of the Flaming Sword, lie announces that the new order will be “the largest detective

agency in the world.” whose members will bind themselves by the most solemn oath to supply to the police and I’ress ail knowledge they gather “of unlawful acts or un-American poli-

Fulike the Ku Klux, the Hidden Hosts will nit wear masks, but their work will lie “secret and they will be ithipuitous” in their devotion “on pure American Protestant Gentile principles to merciless publicity of w rong-doing.” Mr Simmons declares that the secret hosts intend as one of their chief tasks to organise Ircquent inspections and i n vest iga ! inis of all institutions, religions and otherwise, and that they

will publish regular bulletins in each city " giving names and addresses of iiins.e ra merited and complete facts of everything which is puni-liable under the law or which is un-American in principle.”