AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

MtH'NTBATTKN JKUKI. BOBIiLHY. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (.Received this day at 3 a.in.) NKW YORK, .September It. A score of detectives are onpjtped ill the AToimtliatteii jewel robbery, but so far wit limit a definite clue. .Mrs Co-den, wife of the oil miliicii .•lire, was the heaviest loser, includin'; a black pearl line valued at L" 1 <*.<>*•<*. a pipcon blood ruby L’TO 111, and several other valuable items. I.KOBOI.I) AND I.OKIi. .lOI.T ON WAV TO IM!ISON. ’Hoce.ved this day at 0.1.1 a.in.) NKW VOI{ K. 3ejit.ll. If l.eopald and l.oeb, who arrived at the Illinois State I’eiiiteiltiarv iii Joliet Lo-iliplit t,> bopin servin;; tlmir life scniences, did not secure the thrill they desired when they killed the youth Franks, they received it to-nipht while bciiip conveyed to prison. 'I he automobile in tvhii h they were travelliup swerved abruntlv and then tool; a dive into the unballasted tracks of an electric railway. It liphled itself and bounded fifty yards down the track before it slopped. ’I ho boys were nil hurt thoiiph badly jarred. A\ hen be entered the prison, l.oeb reninrked : "This is not such a bad plm e. ' NI’AVS SKI! VICK TIKI) IT. OTTAWA. Seldom! or 12. Demandin'.; yii increase in wastes from from forty-live to sixty dollars a week the toloprsi|’h operators mniininp the Canadian loess and Associated Press wires in Canada have struck, ((.ml lelcly tyinp up the news service.