MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

| Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.} IX t.M KSTK ' TRAGEDY. LONDON, Jan. 28. At tlie Police Court, at the trial "I Dean on the charge of murdering his wife, his six-year-old daughter Dons, giving evidence as to what she saw on the Jay of the tragedy, cried so bitterly iliat Hie examination bad t" be abandoned. The accused, in a stalenieni. disclosed that Ids wife bail complained over his unemployment. Latov they quarrelled over buying Hie children Christ mas toys. He did not remember wliat happened afterwards. He was committed for trial. MR LI.OVD GEORGE’S STATEMENT (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. January 31. Air Lloyd George, at Shrewsbury, alluding to the controversy aroused by his reference to Sir Allred Mom], said no one respects the Jewish race more than I. Whatever comments I may have made upon certain specimens, and I criticised specimens ol every ,-aee in turn, f have always been a great protagonist, and no one resented more strongly the attacks upon them. Nothing fills me with greater contempt than to see new spa pci s drenched with anti-Semitism, trying to make political capital out of a criticism which I passed upon a certain member of that race. BARBARA LA MARR’S DEATH. AN FRANCISCO, January 30. Barbara La Marr. (he picture actress, died at her home at Almailena, California, on Saturday from complications following a nervous breakdown several months ago.