NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1928, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

A DUX JEAN IN THE DOCK. WOMEN ADMIRERS’ (Hr IS. VIENNA. October 12. It is reported from Rnearest (Rumania) that the trial of .Jonel daotan, accused of trying to murder ■Joselino Leonida., a woman well known to B nearest-, is expected Lo continue for several days longer. daetan is liucarest’s Don .Tuan, and women admirers brought him boxes ol cigars and purses uif money in court. The chief warder ol the prison has been dismissed because lie allowed daetan to ■ absent at night for tlje purpose of visiting women of high social position. It is alleged that he tried to murder •loseline Lconida with a hammer alter supping with her alone in her magnificently appointed Hat. Her life has been saved, but she has lost the sighl of one eye. daetan pleads Unit- In* 'lost, his se|i|eontrol because (lie woman hit. his ho. He admits that she gave him money regularly, and numerous fashionable '.•/omen witnesses stated that l hey also gave him money. 1 ndersized. witli irregular loan: • m i a i yme: I. rather brutal e.xpree a>u Uactan does not give the impression oi a loch-killer.

DREAM MURDER. SLEEP-WALK ER WHO KILLED W 1 EE. NEW’ YORK. October 2. “ This is a dream murder.” said counsel for the deleuce. when addn-s----sing the Detroit Court mi behalf ol (’hostel" Kutzliih, who was ehai'god with the murder of Ins wil<*. The plea, entered was that Kui/.iub killed his wife while suffering from soimiamhulism and somnohml ia, whim was delined as the ” lapping over ol profound sleep into Hue domain of apparent, wakefulness.” KnC'.gliib, giving evidence, declared, that hi* was walking in Ins sleep wneii he shot his wife. The report, ol the gun, wakened him. and. shaken by the ad, he attempted to commit sumide. |!is three children gave evidence iliat, their lather walked in his sleep on an average three times a week, and said that their parents never cpiarrelh d. The police confirmed this evidence to the extent of saying that when they arrived at the house nil ter the >,homing they found the husband griel-sl rieke-n. with Ins dying wife in his arms. The jury found Kiit/.lub guilty ol manslaughter, with a recommendation to mercy, and the judge postponed sentence.

SKYSCRAPERS FOB PARIS

TO SOLVE TRAFFIC PR OB,’LEM. FAR IS, October 2. The conversion of Paris into a city ol skyscrapers like New York is, according to leading architects, the only solution of the ever-growing traffic problem which is puzzling the city authorities just as it is agitating Louden. These architects demand that tin Government de-roe of 1902 which limits the height of buildings in the city shall be withdrawn. Every year SO,()()() more motor vehicles are to he seen in the streets of Paris. Traffic police, one-way traffic, smd circular movement around pub lie *f|mnes are only palliatives say tUarchitects. One of them said to m< to-day: “ The only way out of the dif.ieulty •Mid this will apply in due course t« London, Berlin and oilier great elites is to widen tho boulevards, home n the widest sf reels in Paris have nlre.uU reached a point "bote Ju,'. -■ carry any more traffic during the i is.. hours. , “If, is this city’s duty to look alt*. • , for within a. few years main- mao streets will have to he doubled am, even trebled in width if >'.<>• rummo. traffic block is to he avoided.” 80-STOREY BUILDINUS. Our old-fashioned ideas at- s'vM-.ei l>v the idea or 20-storey buildings Buildings of GO and 80-storeys \u\ , oine.

What we cannot gain in .suriaee .sp-'" n;o ntusl <»aiit in height. What is needed is a groat unive-al plan of rebuilding of cities like 1 at with avenues and si reels Hi roe times ;i S wide as those of io-tlhv. giving plenty ntf light and air. ami with buildings til least six times htglmr than they are at present in all eommer .al ami industrial areas. I’nhhe head.i will gain thereby as well as tlm gen--1 eomfort and eflieiency. One of Hu' si range anomalies ol Ilm over-growing use of motor vehicles is that.' whereas there were 2.91,.000 imrses in France in 1-99- the eettsus <> horses taken for military purposes year showed that there wee 10.00. more.