NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1928, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

GIRL CLIMBER’S' LATE. GENEVA, April 12. After a ten-hours search in a Blinding snowstorm two columns of guides from Les Avants ami Caux, near Montreux, discovered last night at the foot of the Dent Jaman the body of a girl named Du Common, who had been missing since Sunday. The girl, who was last* seen by a party of skiers, ignored their warnings and insisted on climbing the peak alone. Efforts to recover her body last night had to lie abandoned owing to the perilous position in which it lay. Eight inches of new snow added to the difficulties o.f the rescue party.

KIDNAPPING IN BARODA. BOMBAY, April 12. The kidnapping scare at Ahmedabad, where, it is alleged, attempts by Moslems to kidnap Hindu boys have been made, has spread to the city of Barcda, where wild stories are now being circulated among the native population. A direct result has been the opening of a, series of attacks on Patlians, one "of the families of Moslems. Two Pathans have been set upon and belaboured so seriously that they are in a critical condition in hospital. Several eases of missing children have been reported to the police and a number of arrests have been made. DYING CASHIER'S PLUCK. PARIS, April 14. The desperate bravery of M. Gustave Argaillot, the 58-yoars-old cashier of a factory at Chiais, near Paris, caused the rout of two armed motor bandits on Saturday—but cost him his life.

The bandits, in an attempt to seize flic £I,OOO pay money of the factory, drove no to the building during the lunch hour, broke down the glass door leading to the pay office, and rushed

M. Argaillot swept the money into the safe, slamming the door to as the criminals; opened lire at him with two revolvers. Despite the fact that he had been Lit several times, lie then ran forward with a stick in his hand, calling for help as ho did so.

His bold attitude made the men retire. The cashier followed them out of doors, and, still calling for help, pointed out the direction they had taken to some workmen who ran np before lie fell dead. It was afterwards found that lie had nine bullets in his body, three of them ’being in the immediate vicinity of the heart. A policeman who had rushed up at the sound of the firing saw the two men enter their car and drive away and was in time to take the number, but upon inquiry found that the ear had been stolen from its owner. This afternoon the ear was found abandoned in a side street of Montrouge, a Paris suburb.

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