NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1926, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

SHOTS BY MISTAKE. NEW YORK, June 15. At Newport yesterday a revenue boat mistook the yacht owned by Mr Arthur Curtiss Janies, host of the Crown Prince of Sweden, for a rumrunner. Two shots were fired, one across the how, the second over it, nar rowly missing the look-out man. Mr James, who figures in the financial world as the largest owner of American railway stocks, has lodged a complaint with the Government. “CAT” FOR A ROBBER. LONDON. June' 15. At Lincolnshire Assizes yesterday Mr Justice Acton sentenced -Arthur Dawson, aged 29, of Grimsby, to nine months’ hard labour and ten strokes of the “ eat ” for robbery with violence. Dawson, who was “on the road,” met a man named William' Newton, who befriended him. Later lie knocked Newton down, jumped on him, and struck at him with a- sharp-pointed table knife, which entered his hand. After securing Newton’s purse, Dawson ran away.

AGED lIRI DEGROOAf KIDNAPPED. NEW YORK, June 15.

A day spent in a lunatic asylum as a patient was the extraordinary prelude to the wedding yesterday of Dr AVilliam H. Pounds, a physician, of Paulsboro, New',Jersey. Dr Pounds, aged 72, had arranged to marry Aliss Jennie Stiles, aged 45, who recently his first wife.

AVliilc visiting her yesterday morning to discuss the final details of their wedding in the afternoon a. messenger interrupted them with the request that the doctor should hasten to a patient at his own residence. On arriving there two men forced the doctor into a motor-car and drove him to the State asylum for the insane, where they exhibited commitment papers which ensured his admittance.

On hearing of his plight the mayor of the city and 40 leading citizens sped in 20 motor-cars to the asylum, demanding his release. They were accompanied by a lawyer, who pointed out that the commitment papers were faulty, inasmuch as they omitted to declare that Dr Pounds was a menace to the community.

Dr Pounds was then released, and at 11 o’clock at night the aged physician and bis bride were married. A mob assembled outside the church, and ns the couple emerged raised a deafening din, blowing whistles and sounding motor horns.

The papers committing the bridegroom to the asylum were signed at the instance of Dr Pounds’s son, a rich coal merchant of Philadelphia."' “ Alv son.” Dr Pounds commented, “ merely made a mistake; that’s all.