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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1928, Page 3

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STOPPED HEART. LONDON, dan. 30. At tin inquest yesterday on Mrs Alice Beatrice Shore, aged 35. of St. John’s Road, AA'e.steliiT-on-Sea. who died in Southend Hospital on .Monday, it wits revoaied that just before she was about, to be op orated on l.cv heart stopped heating lm 25 minutes. “ AYo applied artificial respiration tor ten minutes alter the heart stopped.” |)r Roland Solis said in evidence. ''There was tin response, so an incision was made and ! massaged the heart, until l got cramp in my fingers. J Then another doctor relieved mo. Alter j 25 minutes the heart began to beaoj and the pulse was quite strong.” J Mrs Shore was put back to bed but,} died an hour Inter. ,ne coroner’s verdict was death front heart failure due to toxaunia. PANTS ROBBERS. NEW YORK, Jan. 3(1. , AYitliiit Die past lew months nearly 20 chemists in Brooklyn have been the victims of a gang ol bandits known as “ pants robbers.” All of the robberies have been com- ' mittod late at night. The men entered small chemi.-ds’ shops with drawn revolvers and helped themselves to the contents of the tills after they had Inched the proprietors or their assistaids in charge in the prescription room, first removing the trousers ot their victims to prevent them from giving an alarm. | In the hope of catching these pants ( robbers plain-clothes policemen have been stationed tit various shops. Last night three men invaded a chemist’s shop owned hv ATr Irving Stoller. Policeman Kelly was there with A Stollor. After ordering both “ Hands up!” the bandits searched them and discovered Kelly’s badge. Tliey shot hi,,, in the hack, killing him. and escaped in a taxicab. At the same time another gang of robbers looted a fur store in Brooklyn : of C6, (inn worth of goods after kilim:' j a watchman. DOG BUR TED ALIVE. LONDON. Jan, 3d. George AVilliam Miller, a retired naval warrant officer, of ClnnfiehU Hampshire, was fined £5 at Pctersfiold, Hampshire, yesterday for cruelty to a terrier dog. It was alleged that he heat the do2 about with the head with a hnmnwt and stabbed it in the body with !> prong in an attempt to kill it because it had bitten a hoy who called at the house with newspapers. Ho then buried it, thinking it was dead, but the dog recovered, pushed up the earth, and, on being pulled out; ran away. RADIUM TEST j LONDON, Jan. 30. How a jewel theft was discovered by ' radium was told yesterday by Mr A. E. Hayward Pinch, medical superintendent of the Radium Institute. Riding-Houso-street. AV. when addressing the Ladies’ Appeal Committee of St. George’s Hospital. A. woman patient, on being told by him that radium illuminates most precious jewels, especially diamonds, a>ked that the test might bo applied to a brooch of seven large diamonds that she was wearing. Tlie room was darkened and a grain of radium placed near the diamonds, five of which lit up with a greenish light, while two remained dark, showing that they were waste. It was then learned that two of the diamonds had been taken to a jeweller to lie reset, and that the imitation stones had apparently been substituted. TRAGIC EX-EMPRESS. BRUSSELS. Jan. 30. Princess Charlotte of Belgium, widow of the Emperor Maximillian of Mexico, who died at her castle near Brussels last January, aged 86, having been insane for 60 years, left estate in England valued at £116,214. The property abroad is said to exceed