NEWS AND NOTES.
.MILLION AI BE EATS GLASS
NEW VOLK, Dec. 22. Millionaire Edward Browning, who gained notoriety through his divorce ol his 17-vear-old wife. Beaches, now declares he has only two objects left in life; one is to make children happy, and the other is to improve his health. Standing among‘the 20.000 toys he is ,riving to children throughout the States, he said he now eats only oats and raw vegetables, and. like Nebuchadnezzar, chooses a diet of grass, with wild (lowers as dessert. TTis only beverage, he claims, is iced water.
POLICE COUP. LONDON, Dec. 22. What Scotland Yard regards as the most important round-up of the last decade ended at the Old Bailey and practically wipes out Josephine O’Dare’s notorious gang of crooks. William Stevens was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment. Benjamin Harper and John O’Connor to 2 months, and Luke Donegal, alias Claude Davies, to a year for forging and uttering cheques. Harper was actively associated with O’Dare, and was also implicated in white slavery. O’Connor has often been convicted in England and France, and is also a whiteslaver.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1928, Page 3
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