BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION THE KINO WALK INC. LONDON, .March 15. Ihe King took In’s first walk in t.lit —■ palace gardens since his illness, ic a- FALSE PRETENCES, p. LONDON. March 15. Mrs Lubbock was arrested on a war- ’/ rant for allegedly obtaining £l(l{) under false pretences. She was released on hail until Monday. i- ..... MONKEYS AND GLANDS TREATM KXT. d 0 DELHI. .March 15. A regular trade in monkeys for the d Euioponn market has sprung up ju Ju- . dia, allegedly for thyroid gland pure poes. This lias apparently alarmed s some quarters and the Home Minister - n-ske'l the Imperial Assembly at Delhi L ‘ if tLo Government would take stej s to - Top The expert, with a view to pre- , venting the extinction of the huge nion- ’ I'*-’.'' population, also if the Government ■ would take a census of monkeys. The Minister admitted the recent export of , lour thousand monkeys to Europe hut did not know it it were for gland pur- ( puses. Amid laughter, he declined the | reposal to take* a census of monkeys and also refused to interfere with their export.

CROWBOROFGH MERGER. CASE FOR THE DEFENCE. LONDON, March 11. At the resumption of his trial, Thorne gave evidence. He said that Elsie Cameron wanted to make immediate arrangements for their marriage. He told her that this was impossible. She seemed partly hystc-i----cal, and she tried several times. He left her in the hut when he went to meet .Miss C’aldicott. When he returned at 11.-15 at night, lie found Miss Cameron suspended from a beam with a slip-not at the hack of her head. Her feet were touching iho floor, lie cut the cord, and the girl’s face struck a suitcase, while he was carrying her to a bed. He thought she was dead, and lost his head, and then he out up the body. -Mr Cassells, K.C., the defending counsel, in dramatically developing the defence theory of suicide, declared that microscopical slides of the skin on .Miss Cameron’s neck indicated a crushing that was consistent with the

f pressure of a rope, f The defence contended that these f slides proved Thorne’s case. The 1 hearing was adjourned, j (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) . LONDON, -March .15. Two skulls and two Indian clubs were prominent exhibits in the Court at the resumption of the Thorne trial. Three girl clerks testified to Cameron’s nervousness, worrying over work and her talk of going mad. James Wood, a mental specialist testified that he deducted from Cameron’s medical history that she -wa.s acutely neurasthenic and potentially suicidal. Amiable, courteous, unselfish, and a general favourite wa.s the description of Thorne, given by a male witness who wis no intimate acquaintance. Doctors Gibson and Bronte described the post mortem after the exhumatiun of Cameron, both deducing from the bruises on the neck that death was due to shock', probably the icsult of an attempt at hanging. Both were of the opinion that a nun-, derous blow would have smashed the skull, whereas Cameron's skull which was abnormally thin, was only bruised, consistent with the theory of a fall. Gibson described shaving off a minute portion of the skin on the neck and the underlying tissue for the purpose of micros! opica.I examination. Both agreed that Spilshpiy was the most eminent pathologist, hut Gibson described him as sometimes a trifle dogmatic. Bronte considered Spilshurv made a mistake in not examining the marks microscopically . The hearing was adjourned. TENNIS. LONDON, March 15. Guidon beat Paris by 11 games to 10. It is their first victory since 11)14. LORD CURZON. LONDON. March 15. i I.ord Chirzon did not have a good night, and is suffering from a slight bleeding, which was checked, hut there is no marked loss of strength, and his condition is still satisfactory.

A STORAL AIADRTD. March Id. A violent storm in the Mediterranean did severe damage in many places and compelled the British fleet bound for Pollens;! Bay to shelter at Palma, daniorea.