MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1928, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

DENTIST’S NECK. A Paris dentist is claiming damages from a friend, an antiquary, with whom he went out recently for a day’s shooting. The friend drove him home afterwards but the car struck a gate post and dearly overturned. The dentist’s head struck the roof of the car with such violence that he ricked his neck. The injury has left him stiff-necked and he is consequently unable to look into the mouths of clients seated in the operating t-hair. 'lbis being a serious disability, ho claims nearly LIOOO from his friend, who declines to pay. Ihe question has. therefore, been carried into the courts. FACTORY “ FLUTTERS.” “The rising generation likes a flutter and if the Government considers girls are entitled to vote, surely they a.c entitled to do what they like with their own money? ” 'lbis was the view of a leading Carlisle sportsman, when asked for his views on the Dean of Carlisle’s assertion in opposing a proposed dog racing track for the town that “ one of the most serious features of life at Carlisle is the way in which girls arc betting. Carlisle absorbs thousands of girls in its factories and business houses, and dross and dancing nowadays divide with sports the claims upon the girl's earnings.” STUCK TO IMS GUNS. Mr Graham Campbell, the Bow Street magistrate, fined llcrocrt. (liailcs I ei-i-ctt, a bus driver in the employment ol the L.G.0.C.. living at Atkin Road, (’athird. L 7 7s and C 7 7s costs lor being drunk while in charge of his bus in Northumberland Avenue. \\ .C .. on Armistice night. Iho magistrate said that lie would depart from the usual rule of passing sentence of imprisonment because ol Perrott’s excellent character and Army record. Mi* brigadier-general had written to him offering the congratulations of hiin.se!! and the staff for keeping the guns in action for several hours in circiiinst-n----ces of exceptional bravery, and on another occasion for sticking to bis guns while suffering from gas poisoning and rescuing wounded under shell-fire. .1 1 AD.\ I A N’S D EL USI ONS. A mail named Harry Tronian, aged 41, charged at Leeds Assizes with tlm murder of his little soil Ernest at Sheffield, was found insane and unfit to plead. Mr Justice Roche ordered him to he detained during His Majsety’s pleasure. Troman was seized with a convulsive fit ill the dock. I roman suffered from a delusion that he was being pursued b.v motor cars, aeroplanes, police, and a lig man, nii'i locked himself and his child in a Inal room, telling the hoy lie intended link ing him an angel and that it wo dd not hurt. He shouted to the police outside the room that il they broke in h would kill the child. The police waited for hours, and when they thought the man had dropped asleep rushed the door. Troman struck the child oil the head with a poker, killing him at once. i GIRL’S CAPTURE. An amusing story ol how a young woman, armed with a clothes pole, frustrated a man’s escape from a house in Arcos Drive, Mosspark, Glasgow, was told at the Divisional Court, when a young man appeared before the magistrates on a charge of housebreaking and was remanded in custody. ihe young woman, who lives in Areas Drive, was seated by the window when she saw a man acting in a. suspicious manner outside a house which she knew to he empty. She raised the alarm, and the house was surrounded by a crowd. Disturbed in bis activities, the alleged burglar tried to make off, but his attempt to escape was frustrated by the girl, who barred his progress with a clothes pole. Realising that ho was trapped, the young man switched on the electric light., seated himself in a comfortable armchair, and resigned himself to await the arrival of the police.