NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1928, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

A WOMAN STABBED. LONDON, May 14

A 16-years-okl boy named Frederick Finch was yesterday arrested and charged with the murder of Mrs Wood, aged 50, in Cottenham road, Upper Holloway, N. Shortly before noon Mrs Winter, aged .32, ran screaming from the house, a tenement one, complaining that she had been stabbed. Neighbours who ran into the house found Mrs Wood lying on the floor bleeding profusely from wounds in the chest, apparently inflicted with a knife. She died before a doctor arrived. Mrs Winter was taken to hospital and detained, but lier injuries are not of a serious nature. Finch, who lives in the same house with bis parents, was sitting in a c j,air in the’kitchen when the police arrived. He complained of toothache and was seen by a doctor before he was charged.

NATIVE MURDERS. R.ABAB, May 14. At Casablanca recently Monsieur and lime. Courceux and their nephew, Jacques Bouranillow, aged 13, wero murdered by their native servant, the nephew being struck down at the' piano while practising. At the trial at Casablanca the court was literally rushed and stormed when tlie doors were opened by huge crowds mad with indigation, and it required a strong cordon of police to cope with them and to preserve order. When sentence of death was pronounced the applause was deafening, and later, when the condemned man was being driven off to prison, there was another hostile demonstration. The reason for tlio crime was that a further advance in wages had been refused to the servant. TOISON GAS. NEW YORK, May 14.

One of the strangest and most devilish devices for fighting the police lias just been captured in Detroit. It is a motor-car equipped to pour out a cloud of poison gas. It lias already been used with striking effect. Policeman Beauregard gave cliusb the Other day to a motor ear winch he suspected was carrying forbidden liquor. The driver permitted the poh'<> man to draw near to the back of us car and then a cloud of choking gas came from the exhaust pipe. Beauregard lost control of his motor cycle and crashed into a a ‘ teh - A close watch was kept on the road, and the car was captured. No was found nor did the driver appear to be the owner, but under the flnoi, with an outlet in the exhaust pipe, the police found a small tank filled with liquid. They are now analysing the chemical to discover what weapon is in the armoury of the Amor i cirri bootlegger.