NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1928, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

NEGRO L\NCI I ED AND BURNED. NEW' YORK, Dec. I.

Alore Ilian 20(1 men to-day lynched Leonard Woods, a Negro, who was accused of murdering Marshal! Deaton, a white foreman of the Flkton Coal Company at Fleming, Kentucky.

Mr Deaton last Sunday refused to allow Woods and two women to ride in his motor car, and his body, with a bullet in the brain, was found on the highway in the following day.

Owing to Hie public excitement over Hie crime. Woods was transferred yesterday to the gaol at Whitesburg. The gaol is in charge of a woman, Airs Foss Whittaker.

This morning a procession of To!) motor cars halted outside the prison.

'■ mob of unmasked men sawed through the iron bars, placed a chain around the Negro's neck and led him to the mountains. There lie was shot to death and his body was placed on a platform erected for the dedication , ceremonies at the opening of a now highway connecting Virginia and Ken- , tuoUv. ; Petrol was poured over the body and ■ soon the soaring (lames signalled that the act of lynching was complete. ( Hit AGO BOMBS. XKAY YORK, Dec. 1. | Lurid despatches from Chicago t.or.dc.v describe the ninth bomb outrage i in tint', city within ten days. Like | its predecessors, the bomb was suc- | ccsMiilly aimed at a gambling establishment. presumably by owners of a rival gambling den. j t»7"Miltniioously the police discovered in the outskirts of the city the bullet-riddled body of Carmen Ferro, “a rich, enterprising, amiable manufacturer.” Ferro was wanted by the Federal authorities on charges of opi crating a mammoth still and of bej ing the cbieftan of a large body of i moonshiners, and the supposition is that lie was murdered to prevent the production at his trial of evidence incriminating his influential assooi iil!l ' s : Ibis situation fills the Alayor of Chicago, “Big Bill” Thompson, with gratification. In a 3.000 word letter in the New York newspapers to-day he boasts that under his beneficent administration crime in Chicago has been reduced ~A) per cent., and that Chicago's crime wave was due to the invasion of that city by New York ; criminals. I The well-to-do elements of Chicago’s ! citizenry do not share Big Bill’s complacency. Yesterday they held a mass meeting and adopted resolutions set- j ting forth that Big Bill’s political henchman, the Public Prnsecutorr, is the most effective ally of the criminal underworld. The icsolutions declared that the police wore honest, but. that their necks wore under the yoke of poli tirians .and therefore tlieir activities were futile.

MURDER ON BROADWAY. NEW YORK. December 1. Mr Jacob O Noyer, a clothing mr.mifncturrer, was murdered last uiglit on Broadway as he was walking towards the Tube station in 1-ltli-street. A motor car containing three men drew up at the curb immediately behind him. One of tile men stepped out and fired a pistol point blank into Mr. Novel’s back. He fell to the ground ami the murderer fired two more shots into the prostrate body of his victim. Crowds hurrying home dashed in fright to the shelter of buildings. The murderer re-entered his car and drove rapidly away, disappeaing in the maelstrom of Fifth Avenue traffic.

The murderer is supposed to have some connection with a feud in the garment industry. Three hours after it occurred the police arrested at Bellemore, Long Island, two men who were in a motor-ear with number plates corresponding to those reported by witnesses of the murder.

JEWEL THIEF’S ESCAPE. LONDON, Dee. 1

A tli iof threw a coke hammer through the* window of Mr A. Glennie, jeweller, of Maiden-lane, Covent Garden. last- night, and got away with three diamond rings stated to be of a total value of £l3B. A few minutes later a workman called to ask when if would lie convenient to fit a new iron grid, which had just been ordered to I protect the window. Mr Glennie’s assistant said to a reporter: The hammer struck Mr Glennie over the heart, but did not injure him. I ran out. but could not see nothing of the man. hut later a man whose name I do not know said that lie saw the man smash the window and run down a passage into the Strand. He went in pursuit, hired a taxi-cab and followed the thief as far as Waterloo Station, where he lost- him. BOW-AND-ARROW-ATTACK. BOMBAY. Dec. 1. The judge at- Jamshedpur has dispos- I ed of an extraordinary case of murder I

reported from Tat’anagar, the headijuaiters of the Tata Steel M orks. A landowner leased some land on a neighbouring estate, and his so-called intrusion was resented by local aboriginal tribesmen, who attacked him with bows and arrows. The landowner fled, hut was pursued by the tribes men, who caught him, dragged him back to the leased land, and beheaded him.

'The aborigines then ran with the head to present it personally to the police or to the local magistrate, as it is believed by a section of the tribesmen that they should do this when they consider that a person has done them serious wrong. The murderers were, of course, immediately arrested. SMUGGLED OPIUM. PARIS, Dec. 1.

Allegations are made in La Libertc under a stipulation from the'lndian Government that it was only to he put on sale in Indo-China was subsequently fraudulently sold in Canton at a very high price with the connivance of certain high officials of the Indo-Chinese Government. It is stated that a French Customs officer in Imlo-Chna, who became aware of the smuggling of opium and had drawn up a full report involving verv high Customs officials, was killed Mi as to prevent him sending his report to Paris.

The demand is made that an immediate official investigation should he instituted and that M. Vnrenne, the Socialist deputy appointed GovcrnnrGeneral by M. Herriot in 1921 and who is now retiring from the post, .should he called upon to give evidence as to his administration.

LOST MEMORY MAX. COP EXHA GEN, Dee. 2

The Swede who lost his memory, has now revealed his identity. He is a former mining engineer, Mr C. G. X. Duncr. a son of the late Professor X .('. Duller, of Upsnla.

Tie participated in the war on the British side, and was reported killed on the western front. He states that at the end of 1916 he was in Inlanders in a dug-out with 14 or 15 other officers, playing bridge, when someone suddenly cried out -.“Get out, an explosion.”

They all got up. and Dimer got hold of a tunic and threw it over himself. Then a German mine hurst, and every lmhlv was killed except Duncr, who was hurled into the air amid a shower of earth and rendered unconscious. He spent some time 'n hospital in England, hut on his recovery could not remember his own identity. In the tunic which ho wore there were, however, various papers with the name of “Colonel M.,” and Duller was supposed to lie that colonel.

Duncr does not recall how his life shaped itself as Colonel M.. for whom there were no inquiries, hut by degrees his memory returned, and when lie came across some Swedish papers, and was able to read them, he concluded that he must he a Swedish officer and not lliitish.

Then in a Swedish State handbook ho found a name that appeared lamiliar to him, wrote to the owner of the name, and found it was his own brother. His return to Stockholm followed.