NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1926, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

MOTORIST’S PERIL.

LONDON, Juno 28

Mr Thomas William Hunt, a Cardiff confectioner, had a terrifying experience at the top of the cliffs at South-ern-down, on the Glamorgan coast, on Wednesday night. Me had motored to Sontherudown with his wife and a woman friend, and when approaching tho cliffs something went wrong with one of the sidelights. The party got out and Mr Hunt crawled under the car to investigate the trouble. A few minutes later there was a burst of flame near the petrol tank.

Mr Hunt attempted to scramble out from underneath tho car, and iii doing so he apparently touched some of the mechanism.

The car began to move, and -Mr Hunt found his clothing had become entangled. Gathering momentum, the car sped towards the edge of tho eliffs. Seeing her husband’s plight, Mrs Hunt screamed for help. Her cries were heard by Mr William Davies, employed at the Marine Hotel, and ho rushed to the snot and pulled Mr Hunt out on the edge of the cliffs.

The ear. whipli hv this time was ablaze, fell over the cliffs on to tho rocks 300 ft. below.

-Mr Hunt, though unconscious, was not burnt. When lie regained consciousness he was found to be suffering from shock.

IN THE SAME HAT. LONDON, Juno 26. The hearing was continued of the claim of Mrs Bee St. Vincent Farrant, of Park-nlaec, London, against Mrs Louisa Hocker, now Airs MncArtliur, formerly proprietress of the Washington Hotel, Ourzon-street, Mayfair, for the return of articles Valued at £l7O, said to ha-vo been left at the hotel as security for her bill of £27. Airs Farrant said that when her ti'unks were returned to her, her husband having meanwhile paid the hill, many of the things, including some vd 1 liable heirlooms, were missing. Airs lAlaoArthur said that tho boxes were opened on her instructions as she had hoard nothing of Airs Farrant for several months and she intended to sell sufficient goods to pay the hill. Every care was taken of them. Air Wickham, for AT is Farrant, was asking what was Airs AfacArthur’s idea of the care that ought to be takep of other people’s things, when ALJustice Rowlatt observed: (‘Your client is not on 'i pedestal, you know. People who go away without paving their hotel bill, in niv opinion, live in glass houses.”

Miss Janet Finlayson, formerly Airs MacArthur’s secretary, thought the articles were not of much value being old and out of date. Airs Farrant always wore tho same hat and coat while she was at the hotel. Air Justice Rolatt: Ladies notice when another lady wears the same hat and coat ?—Yes. Genti'emen notice it when there is n change. (Laughter).

Mr Justice Rowlatt said that his sympathies were with Mrs MacArthur, but he must give judgment against her as there appeared no doubt that some of the goods had been lost. He thought the loss occurred in transit. Ho gave judgment for Mrs Far rant for £25 with costs.

THREE-FOLD BTGA.MTST. LONDON, Juno 26

“You are a regular Don JvOn. You have ruined woman after woman and in my judgment women are much more valuable than goods and chattels. You will go to a place where your egoism will be curbed and where you will be forcibly made 'an altruist.” With this comment the Recorder, Sfr Ernest Wild, K.C., yesterday at the Old Bailey sentenced Jean Stuart Wynne, 36. traveller, who pleaded guilty to bigamously marrying Miss Violet Baker, to three years’ penal servitude.

Detective-Sergeant Alfred Manlier said that Wynne, whose real npme was Williams, was a native of Tredegar, and was legally married at Merthyr in 1911, while working as a miner. Before he met Miss Baker he had married three other women 'and had served three months for one bigamy. It was under the name of Captain Peter Ward that lie courted Miss Baker, while she was spending a holiday in Scotland. He “married” her in October last at Kilburn. He represented to her father that he had money coming to himiand borrowed £403 from him, with which he purchased a motorcar, joined the Neasden Golf Club, and posed to the members as a wealthy man. Wynne, in his defence, said: The trouble is that I happen to meet women with some tragedy in thenlives and they appeal to my sympathy. Itrv to cheer them up and they mistake it for affection.”