NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1928, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

DANCER SHOT DEAD. NEW YORK, May 21. “I killed lier because I loved licr” were the last words of Horacio Columbres, a young Argentine, who died this morning after shooting Maria Montero, the beautiful Spanish dancer, in this city. It was a tragedy of thwarted passion. Columbres was a member of .< weatliy Argentine family. He planned, to study at Columbia- University in the autitnm and he lias been living on remittances sent from home. Previously ho studied medicine in Paris, where live liis wife and four children. When Columbres first met the dancer she was unaware of his marriage. He visited her frequently, and lately assisted her in teaching a number of pupils.

It appears that Montero did not desire the young man’s passionate advances and recently learned that ho was already married. When he was with her last Saturday aiid pleaded that they should elope, she taxed him with her knowledge of his marriage.

From that moment he decided on for death. On Monday lie obtained a revolver and last night, as girl pupils were leaving Montefo’s studio, he entered the building and for a fov minutes paced up and down the corridor outside her apartment. Then he rang the boll, which was answered I v Miss Nina Mneedo, an assistant of the dancer.

In a few minutes a fierce quarrd was heard and Columbres cried in Spanish: “This is yoilr last chalice.” Two shots ivere- then heard.

Miss Mneedo found Montero and her lover lying side by side. Sbe vac dead with a bullet in her heart, and the young Argentine was dying of a wound in the forehead. Ho was taken to the hospital and died some hours later. At the time of the .tragedy Mortem was wearing a Spanish sliav.l which was the gift of King Alfonso. She was 25 years of ago and her love” 3.5. YELLOW FEVER. VICTIMS. ACCRA, (Gold Coast) May 25. Dr William Alexander Young, director of the Medical Research Institute on the Gofd Coast, M os!. Africa, died last night of yellow fever have been employed in error. He bad been engaged with Dr Noguchi, the Japanese scientist*. in investigating the. disease. Dr Noi; hini'elf fell a victim to yellow fever on May 21st last. Dr Nogi'ichi had been working under th”- auspices of the Vest Airiean Velio a Fever Commissi**’*, and iv-n taken ill on the eve of a voyage to New York.

Dr Adrian Stokes, who was Professor of Pathology in London I nivorsity, died at Lagos. West Africa, from yellow fever while conducting research into the disease in September last. He was a member of the Bock feller Commission. l)r Young had keen closely identified with the investigations which have been carried on for some years to discover a cure for yellow fever. II is believed that he may have caught tho infection when making a postmortem examination. WAR SERVICE.

He was a Scotsman and received his early training at St. Andrews Unix crsity Medical School, and later studied at the Liverpool School of 'I topical Medicine. Joining the Vest African Medical Service in 1913, he was posted for a time to Sierra Leone. In 101 n a.nd'l9l6 ho was a lieutenant in th.r Camcroons Expeditionary Force. He served for a. time as house surgeon at the Seamen’s Hospital. Greenwich, and in September 1920 lie was appointed to the staff of the illedic.ll Research Institute at Yabii, West Africa. In 1923 be was detailed fob service with the Tsetse Fly Commission in Nigeria. Dr Young’s work in connection with tropical disease investigations won widespread recognition, and in 1921. at the compiibativeiy early age ot 35, he was appointed head of the Medical Research Institute of the Gold Coast. TOTS MAKE THE KING Laugh. LONDON, May 2. The King and Queen yesterday afternoon opened the Princess Louise Kensington Hospital for Children in St. Quintin-avemie, in the Ladbroke-grove district of the borough. Princess Louise accompanied the King ar.d Queen. It was a great children’s day. For street after street, as you approached the hospital, was filled with children, excited and happy and quite careless of the rain, wildly vociferous wlieii the royal party arrived. There was something very touching about streets of children gathered round the children’s hospital. On the dais, after the King had declared the building open, children presented purses to the Queen oil behalf of the hospital, about a dozen Of them, in ways entirely their ciwn. Their stage-fright became them beautifully and delighted the Ring especiallv.

Some shook his hand warmly, others looked up at him wondering];-, standing still; others, after giving the Queen the blue leather purse which all bore, ignored the King completely and bad to lie brought back or sent on to take his hand.

One small boy got on the dais and then turned liis back on the King. Queen, and Princess and offered his purse rather vaguely to the audience; lie was not much bigger than the purse himself. The King’s laughter ht their odd wavs was a pleasure to see, he gave them little pats cm the hack and encouraged them. COURTLY BOWS.

The older girls made pretty little curtsies, lnit it wars the eldest of the boys, one who wore a blazer, v l --

all the others, and all the grown-ups who were to- be presented later, to shame, by the very proper and conrtiv bow he macre to the King. The King, in reply to an address, raid ■« gave him the greatest pleasure to open the hospital which bore the name of Ills aunt', Princess Louise.

“Our crowded city,” said the King “lays a heavy toll upon child life, and a responsibility upon us of providing the means of thrhing the children into healthy citizens.

Princess Louise, a gracious figure, received a particularly spontaneous greeting at the ceremonv.

BLUE FROCKS AND HATS. PARIS, June 7

Brilliant weather favoured the French Oaks at Chantilly to-day, with the result that there was a record attendance. Frocks are seen to their best advantage on the course, and to-day there was a gala display of new dress designs. While the paddock was a moving flower-bed of every colour and shade, blues held predominance. Dresses in muslin and silk, frocks with printed • and hand-painted blue flowers, hats of blue straw, and cerulean feather boas bore testimony to the popularity of the colour.

Frocks were barely a fraction of an inch longer than at any time in the past two months, t and there were certainly none of the ankle-length dresses which have been predicted by prominent dress-makers.

Trouser-skirts for tailor-mades was also a prophecy which failed to materialise. On the other hand there were a large number of three-piece dresses with short jackets.

While there were many of the fashionable feather, fox furs were in the majority. These furs can now be treated, it seems, to match any frocks in colour.

A few broad-rimmed lints could lie seen, but- the close-fitting toque lias not yet been dethroned. Hand-painted parasols were as gorgeous in shade and design as usual, while a larger range of colour has been adopted in footwear. Many shoes worn with multi-coloured dresses repeated the three-colour scheme in the straps, heels, and uppers. £3,000 FOR A LEG. BERLIN, June 7. The Criminal Court at Arnsberg, Westphalia, is deciding to-day whether a workman in the village of Olpo possessed sufficient moral and physical courage to lose a. leg to secure £3,000. Heinrich Ruhr insured himself in February 1028 to receive this amount from two different companies should he be incapacitated by an accident. In the following August he was found lvimr beside the railway at a level crossing, bis left leg having been amputated by a train.. He declared that his bicycle wheel caught in the metals. The insurance company prosecuted him for fraud. J.ast February the case was tried and the court sentenced him to 0 months’ impriscnn*rnt for defrauding the company. It is the appeal from that sentonc-o which is before the Arnsborg coit i t to-day. The court, with counsel on both sides, has visited the place where the mutilation happened, and the judge had the whole scene re-enacted as laias possible. The rase resembles‘that in which a in an named Marck figured in Vienna sonic months ago.

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