MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MADMAN IN COAL MINE. (Received this day at 8..‘10 a.in.) PARIS, Aug. 17. A man hunt in a coal mine at Saint IKtimie followed a fatal quarrel l>e.tween two _ Spaniards. The miners, hearing cries, rushed to the spot and found Jose Gone/, dead, from the blows i.f a shovel and his assailant, Jean Carlin, rushed through the workings, shrieking like a mailman, lie kept his pursuers at hay with an automatic pistol until its magazine was exhausted. When captured lie was hound hand and foot. Twelve miners were wounded by the shots, two being in a very serious condition. MATTEOTTI'S BODY. ROME, Aug. lE7. The body of .Matteotti lay in a rough grave. The hotly was doubled up and unclothed in a ditch ton feet deep under an oak tree on the outskirts of a wood.

.McLaren",s party. [Reutbbs Tkler;iams.3 (Received this day tit 8..'1d a.lit.) YANCO.UYER, Aug. in A telegram from Prince Rupert says that Sergeant Andrews, the mechanician, will enter the hospital on the arrival of the Thiopval at \ atii Oliver on Tuesday. He is .suffering Tit ii>. a nervous breakdown. .MaeLai'en is well, hut requires a long rest, to recuperate. The Russians, at Batropayaolv.sk, debated for four hours whether they would coal the Thiepvtil, hut they finally decided to do so. Mael.areii and party reached here ill the clothes they wore when rescued. .Macl.areii traces all the difficulties to the accident at Burma. But for that delay he would have arrived in the North Pacific a month earlier and probably have avoided the terrible storms and log.*.

THE WOMAN HANGS. FOR COERCION OF MURDER PRAGUE, Aug.

A crime rescmhlitig Thompsun-liys waters nuirdcf had a different sequel. Hilda ilanika, the wife of a Czechoslovakian ofiiccr, coerced her cousin, .Lihami liesely. into murdering iter husband. It was slated at the tfial that she dominated and fascinated Resely to whom site complained of her husband’s brutality. The woman procured a revolver and ammunition and fixed the time and place for the murder, suggesting that Besoly should afterwards commit suicide. The trial resulted in Hilda ilanika being sentenced to death, and Besoly was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, while Hilda’s mother received twenty years as till accomplice. Hilda Ilanika since the trial, ha* given birth to a baby girl and she has now been informed tnilt the sentence will lie carried out.

An aimuvmotts donor has given iMAO for the benefit of the child.