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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1928, Page 7

SEANCE SHOTS. Paris, Oct, an. Tliroo people wore seriously wounded during a hypnotic seance in a eale in the Rue du Chateau last night. The hypnotist selected as his subject a man of '22 named Louis Due, and, after passing his hands before the man’s eyes several times, declared that he was in a trance and incapable of pain. To prove his assertion lit! slapped Due violently on the cheek. Due jumped up and aimed a blow at the hypnotist, and during the commotion which followed drew a" revolver and fired Ifour times. It is feared that the three wounded people will not recover. AIR-PISTOL ATTACK. LONDON, Oft. :m. Air Arthur Howard, who keeps a small tobacco and conloctioncry shop at Herne Ray, Kent, was the victim on Saturday night of an attack hv an unknown man who felled him with blows from the butt end of a heavy air pistol. Air Howard’s cries for help attracted neighbours, but his assailant, whose apparent object was robbery, escaped. The seafront was deserted and Air Howard was alone in the simp, when a young man entered and asked for sweets. As'Air Howard stooped to get them, he was hit twice on the head. As he lay on the Hour he was dealt another smashing blow, hut this time prelected his head with his hands and shouted. The man ran off and, dazed and bleeding. Air II ownrd staggered to the door and again called if or help. Neighbours arrived, hut Air Howard’s assailant, who left behind an air pistol ten incites long, had vanished. Air Howard had two wounds on the head. 10 MINUTES AIARIMED. DIVORCE AFTER QUARREL ON AA'AV HOME FROM AVERRING. RIGA, October - L 'flic Potrograd •‘Krasnaja Ga/.eta reports a -10-minutes marriage. On Friday a man and woman appeared at the register office and signed a contract which, according to Communist law. permitted then to live togot her. Forty minutes later husband and wife returned, demanding that the marriage be cancelled. They explained that on the way home in the tramwaycar they had quarrelled as to where they would live. The authorities granted the divorce, lint handed details of the case to the Public Prosecutor,