MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1928, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

■ —gfe—(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.' MOUNTAIN MYSTERY. WAYNESBORO (Penn.), Feb. 16. Near his mountain home to-day tvat 11 found tho bullet riddled body of Sam--11 uei Shockey, who recently escaped > from prison whore he was serving a 0 life sentence. No trace of his murderr er has been discovered, and so far the ' police have no clues on which to work. 5 After the war Shoekey’s brother ’ Jacob married a girl from another State, and brought her to live in the : mountain cabin. It was not long be- ' fore Samuel fell in love with his brot- ' lier’s wife, and to settle who should have her a novel duel was decided on. The brothers took their rifles and they climbed opposite mountains and 1 began stalking each other. Samuel’s superior woodcraft won the day. He 1 killed Jacob with his third shot. A few days later lie was arrested for murdering his brother, and goaled for life. PRINCE AND WAITER. LONDON, Fob. 16. Entering tho White Hart Hotel for the Windsor Corporation venison dinner, the Prince of Wales first shook hands with the Mayor and Mayoress, and then approached the waiter. He was about to shake hands when the waiter said: “Not with me, 1 our Royal Highness, I am only a waiter.” The Prince unhesitatingly said, “What does that matter,” and shook hands. “ONE MORE FEATHER. LONDON, Feh. 16. Sir Phillip Snsson, Under-Secretary for Air, in a speech at Oxford, revealed that in the early days of flying, a warrant was issued for the arrest oi the air pioneer, A. Roe, on a charge of attempted suicide owing to his persistent efforts' to fly. The successful flight across the English Channel by the Frenchman, M. Blcriot. however, quashed the proceedings. FRENCH MURDER WAVE. PARTS, Fell. 10. The worst crime wave for 20 years is sweeping France, the newspapers publishing sensational reports of murders and robberies in almost every part of the country. These include the murder of a dressmaker in Paris, the fatal shooting of a man at St. Na/.aire, tho slaying of his sweetheart by her jealous lover, the killing of a taxi driver hv his fare and the dangerous wounding of two railway employees by a lunatic. CANNONS ON NEW ’PLANE. LONDON, Feh. 16. Major IV. 1. K. Jennings, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has completed his first course at the Imperial Defence College of the Air Ministry. He made a successful trial flight of flic new fighting ’plane Westland Jupiter West bury, carrying two small cannons, firing explosive shells. instead of machine-guns. Tt is understood that the new gun 'planes solve the difficulty of recoil. OPIUM SMOKING. CALCUTTA. Feh. 16. The opium committee, which was appointed bv the Government of Bengal in view of excessive consumption of the drug in Calcutta and neighbourhood, while the consumption in India generally is declining, recommends the legal suppression of all opium dens in the Calcutta areas, and the smoking of opium to he declared illegal. Tho committee discovered that there is a large traffic in the smuggling of opium. WOMAN’S AWFUL SUICIDE.. LONDON, Feb. 16. The terrible story of bow a woman, named May Elizabeth West, aged 10. threatened to commit suicide and then burned herself to death was told at the inquest at Isleworth to-day. “It is tho most extraordinary ease in my experience,” said the coroner. The husband of the woman said that she always had cooled down after threatening suicide, but she actually did it in the fieriest manner last Tuesday. After a matrimonial altercation be left the room, thinking that it would blow over ns was customary, despito her threat to set herself on fire. Subsequently lie heard screams and saw her wrapped in flames. Tie rushed into the garden, extinguished the flames, and secured a doctor. She told n neighbour, before dying at the hospital, that she poured paraffin over herself because she was tired of life since her husband did not want her. A verdict of suicide, while of unsound mind, was returned. NURSE’S FRIEND PROTESTS. BRUSSELS, Feb. 16. Madame Ada Bodnrt, a former colleague of Edith Caveil’s, who was imprisoned at the time of the nurse’s execution and who appeared in tho war film, “Dawn,” has returned her 0.8. E. medal to the British Government as a protest against the refusal of the Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Cliamherlnin, to see the film. CANNOT CATCH HUSBAND! LONDON, Feb. 10. Since he received a letter on January 8 last, from an Australian who desires a wife, the Mayor of Nottingham has become a busy matrimonial agent. Seventy men and 170 women seeking mates, have written to him. Two of the letters are from Australian men. One woman who desires a husband, wrote that she is well-to-do and owns a car. The Mayor has written to the original writer in Australia, sending him the photographs of several girls, with their letters, but not their names and addresses. PETROL FROM COAL. LONDON, Feb. 16. Describing the conversion of coal into petroleum products, the Government Scientific Industrial Research Committee says that experiments have indubitably shown a high pressure of hydro-genation, and a large proportion of coal is convertible into liquid fuels. But whether it can be established on a commercial scale remains to be seen. Motor spirit derived by low temper- , ature carbonisation showed itself to be an excellent fuel, with a high benzol equivalent.