BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

AVIFE ARRESTED. LONDON; Aug. 21. Alls Amelia Harriet Crouch lias been (arrested 011 a charge of the murder of hc-r husband, Frank Crouch, a retired manufacturer, living at Sumner house Farm, near Uiackton-on-Sea, who was found fatally shot with a revolver clasped in his hand. A DARING BANDIT. PARIS, Aug. 21. Swift retribution overcame *1 masked bandit, who entered a ladies’ compartment in a Bentschen—Berlin train, robbed tho occupants at the revolver point, and then pulled the alarm to facilitate his escape. He jumped off as tho train slowed down, but 'an express swept by in the opposite direc- ~ lion, fatally mangling the bandit. h FATHER’S PATHETIC STORY. LONDON, Aug. 21. A pathetic story was told at Birmingham. when James Albutt was imprisoned for a month for declining to reveal the whereabouts of his eighteen year-old daughter, Yiolct, who was adjudged mentally defective. She left Liverpool Asylum in April, on a week’s holiday to her parents and did not return. The police are baffled in their efforts to trace her. The parents have been brought to Court several times, and three times have been fined, but they still remain silent. The Magistrate’s final lappeal left Albutt unmoved. The Aragistrate; “Does it mean you finally refuse to return the girl?” Albutt: “Finally, absolutely! The crirl is mine. AVe want each other. She refuses to return to that institution When the decision was announced Albutt flung wide his arms, saying: “You have'power to do wb.it A°' l 1 with me. You’ll never have my child. FAMOUS PLAYER’S DEATH. LONDON, Aug. 20. The death is recorded of Trew, the Welsh footballer. He did not meet tho All Blacks in 1905 owing to injuries. He was famous not only as the greatest centre three-quarter who ever played for AYales, but as the joint originator of the reverse pass. AtOTOR CYCLING. LONDON. Aug. 21. _ Ninety-four out of Monday's one : hundred and thirteen starters in. tho six-days’ motor cycle trial, have airiled at Brooklands, including Roy Chapman. BRITISH WORKER ACCEPTS LADY ASTOIL’S CHALLENGE. LONDON, Aug. 21. Lady Astor, in December, challenged “any British Socialist doing lip service to the Soviet regime to put his oilier faith to proof by going to live in Russia” offering to pay tho fares of any acceptor. Air James Morton, aged 48, an ironmoulder, of Liverpool, has accepted tho offer, and he sails for Leningrad during the week-end with his wife and two children. All- Morton says: “Things may be a hit thin over there, but they cannot be leaner than here!”

He adds: “Though I am a skilled man. I only draw G2s weekly. I think myself lucky, compared with other - skilled workers in the engineering trade. I have been unemployed, or on half time since 1921. As the Secretary of the Liverpool “Hands-Off Russia” Committee, I know something of tho conditions of the workers’ state. It is iu a state of transition, it cannot be a land of milk and honey.” FAArOUS SHOW. LONDON, Aug. 20. Within twelve months London will have not only the old Tussaud’s restored as cabled on July 15th, but, in addition, <1 restaurant and a cinema, the aim of the new company being to make it London’s leading entertainment centre, on which tlie.v are spending two hundred thousand sterling. I’ll stand by her.” SUICIDE AT SEA. HONOLULU, Aug. 21. J. Dickson, an unmarried man. of Montreal, committed suicide by shooting on tho liner Niagara two flays out from Victoria. He was bound for Australia, and he left a note to the Captain requesting secrecy to fool his enemies, and that his body be weighted and dumped overboard. This was done. The passengers were unaware of the suicide till the ship arrived here.