NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1928, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

A HAIRLESS HOUND. LONDON, Feb. 9. CYult’s Dog Show opened yesterday i» the Royal Agricultural Hall. Islington, N. Old supporters of this classic, some of whom have seen all the 40 exhibitions, which have preceded this one, declare this is the best. The present show affords a remarkable study of British and foreign breeds. The cocker spaniels, Labrador retrievers, Irish setters, elkhounds, and wire-haired fox terriers are particularly good. The frowning chows, with their massive coats and blue tongues (the latter a mark of breed); the giant

Irish wolfhounds, some of them exceeding a yard high at the shoulder; the noble St. Bernards and Great Danes, and all other breeds, had their crowds of special devotees. Ting of Helouan. Mrs E. Lloyd’s (Grosvenor-road, S.W.) African hairless hound, which is the show’s greatest novelty, resembles a small terrier with a skin like that of an elephant, and he has a knowing little face. In Egypt the natives believe that to touch one of those dogs will cure a fever. Everybody wanted to stroke Ting yesterday, and he took it in good part. Hut. small as he is. there is no breed of his race, even the Alsatian, that he v ill not approach with a show ol defiance.

MURDERED FATHER. PARIS, February !). One of the most involved domestic tragedies ever submitted to a Parisian tribunal was disclosed before (lie Correctional Court to-day. It was a case in which the adoptive mother of three illegitimate ehildien refused to hand them over to men real mother, who had murdered their father, with whom she had been living. After their father’s death the children were taken care ol by his willow, though they were not her own. The mother claims the right to bring up her own ofispring, even though she killed their father.

Mile. Loonie Gerard shot and killed M. Victor Deprez, in whose employ sh - ield been as typist and secretary lor '2 > years. She had three children by him. the eldest being now 11. I'or a (pianor of a century the real Mine. Deprez had tolerated her husband’s mistress, but the mistress could not tolerate M. Deprez taking up with another woman much younger than herself. ACQUITTED OF MURDER. She shot and killed them, but an impressionable Paris jury acquitted her of murder. Ti ic case which is now being heard by the court involves more difficult psychological problems than those which laced the jury. Mine. Deprez insists on keeping as her own her dead husband’s illegitimate offspring. Their mother, pleading that she would rather have been sentenced to death for murder than be robbed of her children, plaintively asks that they shall be given back to her. The judges are faced with the problem of choosing between the widow, who has sworn eternal hatred ol the woman who killed her husband, and the mother who demands the custody ol the children whose father she killed.

The judge and his assessors discussed the case for some time, but their complexity was so great that they decided to adjourn until next Wednesday, when the two women will he brought face to face in court. The children may also bo brought before the judge.