GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

DEATH SENTENCE

FOR MURDERER OF AGED COUPLE.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

LONDON. November 17. William C'onlin lias boon sentenced to dentb.

A cable received on September 2-itli stated that, following the discovery of the shallowly-buried bodies ol an elderly couple, ilioinas and Airs Kirby, of Old. Thornahy Green, t lit' police bad arrested, on the implication ol murder. Charles William C'onlin, aged 22 years, an ex-soldier, and the grandson off the murdered woman by her first marriage.

AGITATOR’S DEATH

ROUGH HANDLING BY FOLICE

ALLEGED

DELHI, November 17

Lain Lajpat Bai, a leading agitator in the I’unjnb. aged twenty years, lias died. His Indian medical advisor alleges death is undoubtedly due to rough handling by the police at Lahore station, on tbe arrival of the Simon Commission.

. The incident may lead to a big agitation, and an untoward political situation

A MARRIAGE. PARIS, Nov. 18. Brownlee’s marriage has been fixed for 29tli. Nov.

NO NEWSPAPERS

XAIAS DAY AND BONING DAY

LONDON. Nov. 18

The newspapers are not publishing on the morning or evening of December 25th. and 26th.

AN ASSASSINATION

OF UNION SECRETARY

(Received this day at 11 a.m.)

CHICAGO, November 18

Assassins witli machine guns walked in front of the Laundry Drivers’ t nion headquarters and shot John ( lay, secretary of tbe Union, as be sat at bis desk. Trade Union lenders admitted the disturbers are attempting to turn the unions into gangs ol extortionists and because Clay resisted such tactics, lie met bis death. LADY HEATH’S FINANCE. (Received tin's day at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON. Nov. 10. Lady Heath interviewed refers to the announcement that Sir James Heath will not lie responsible for debts contracted by his wife, who it is stated is in receipt of an adequate allowance. Sir J. Heath is seventy-six and his wife thirty-one. A TRAGEDY. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 18. Following the discovery last week of the strangled body of a nineteen year old dairymaid. Sarah (ohlett. in Alumhole reservoir, where' the body was secreted for a month, a former c-m----employer, Robert Gill, thirty-seven, •’ well known Cumberland farmer, committed smicide. In a letter to bis wife (who is left with four children) and tin' [Hilice coroner, be said: “i uni unable to bear scandal mongering so I am taking a coward’s way out.” A MURDER. LONDON. Nov. 18. Scotland Yard is also investigating the murder of Annie Hatton, an eighteen years old domestic, who "<is found strangled, bound and gagged in the kitchen of an employer’s shop nt Liickiiew. The rooms were ransacked but nothing was stolen.