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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1928, Page 4

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« x *• t BULL FIGHT IN A STREET. MADRID, Jan. 20. ’• Madrid's great new street, the Gran I Via, was turned into ail improvised 1 bull-ring this morning, when two fight- ® ing bulls which had escaped from a neighbouring ring reached Madrid and spread terror among the inhabitants, killing a woman and wounding several pedestrians. When the animals dashed along till Gran Via the shopkeepers hurriedly ) closed their shutters. Fortuna, a famous bull-fighter, who chanced to he walking along the street, ■ j seized a sword from an armourer’s, shop and struck one of the animals dead ai the first blow. The other was captured. It is reported that the Governmeid [ will confer a decoration on the toreador. whose prompt action probably saved ; lives. SPEEDY BURGLARS. J LONDON. Jan. 27. s Cat burglars, who are believed tc 1; have driven in a motor-car to tin t Moore Place Hotel, Esher, Surrey, on Tuesday night, carried out a lightning robbery. () Within seven minutes one of them 2 climbed a stack pipe, crawled over the t glass roof of a conservatory, entered a bedroom, and. after locking the door. 0 ransacked the room, stealing jewellery, 0 valued at more than £20!) without leav- !) ing a linger print or a footmark. 2 While the robbery was carried out 2 MO people were dining in the hotel,, and 0 several servants were walking up and 0 down tlie corridor outside the room (5 with hot-water bottles for the beds. PIRACY OFF SPAIN. ■GIBRALTAR. Jan. 27. A Mother high seas outrage is report- . ed by the master of the Spanish trawler San Antonio which, while tisliing last evening six miles north-east of Gibraltar, was ataeked by more than filty 2 -Spanish fishing boats, the crews o( 7 which totalled about 300. 7 The marauding crews, armed with re. 1 volvers and knives, seized the trawler 3 and compelled its crew to help them in it a search for the British trawler Juan i) Viale, which was unsuccessfully attack- ■! ed on December IH. 8 They did not find the Juan A iale, hut 7 met the Spanish trawler .Maria, which the pirates also seized 0 Both trawlers were completely looted 3 and then run ashore on the Spanish - const, where the Spanish coastguards 7 were driven off. i. Subsequently the crews o! both - trawlers refloated their vessels, and I, arrived here this morning. | £IO,OOO FRAUD CHARGES. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. 2 The criminal prosecution of -Mrs Florence Knapp, the first woman to he •I Secretary of the State of New York, on I charges of forgery, grand larceny, and 1 making false audits, is recommended 0 to Governor Smith in a report tiled by 2 the Commissioner appointed to investi--3 gate the administration of the State 2 Census of 1025. 1 As direeor of the Census, Mrs Knapp is accused by the Commissioner of hav--6 ing paid £5,000 to relatives whom she 2 appointed to official posts. These rela--8 tives, who included Mrs Knapp’s 80- - years-old mother, never did any work. 2 says the Commissioner, who alleges that . chorines made out in their names were i, endorsed in Airs Knapp’s handwriting, i, The Commissioner recommends the Governor, if criminal proceedings fall, to institute a civil action for the re:ovo;y of approximately £IO,OOO. i The criminal prosecution is also urged - of the depute secretary, Mr. Mark r Stern. of .M.vs Julia Ryan, chief clerk of o the Department of Civil Service, and - Alis.-. Antia Little, tlm State auditor. 1 for violation of the criminal law in the t. furtherance o. Mrs Knapp's illegal parI poses. ARRESTED M.P. STRASBOURG, Jan. 23. Herr Thomas Unsold, member of the - Austrian Parliament for a constituency in Carinthia, who is a prosperous - farmer at Fucrholz, has just been ar- ? rested on a charge of living an amazing double life. i It is alleged that when lie. was not occupying his seat in Parliament or attending to his farm he was a masked bandit, raiding isolated farms and country houses. He is also charged with a number of burglaries in country post offices.