NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

WHY HK STABBED HIS FRIEND. MAN WHO THOUGHT A TIGER WAS . ATTACKING lIJM. RANGOON, (Burma) Doc. 4. The trial of a man named Rae, who was accused of the murder of his friend by stabbing him while on an elephant shoot at Momeik, in the Northern Shan Sates, was concluede to-day. A European jury unanimously found that lino was of unsound mind at the time. Judge Jleald ordered Rao to Im* detained pending the Government’s consideration of the ease. During the proceedings it was stated that Rne and Pigott were staying in me re&L-house at Weboung and that Pigott was found mortally stabbed on the night of June 1. Rae admitted stabbing Pigott, but declared that he was under the hallucination that he saw a tiger crouching on his friend’s body while they were sleeping together. —Reuter. An Exchange message states that counsel for the defence submitted that Air Oscar Pigott was a consenting party to Robert Rae’s alleged intrigue with iiis wife and that Rae suffered from hallucinations after malaria. HUSBAND WHO WAS LATE. PARIS, Novemlier 24. Because a young man, Georges Tecrouy, arrived home very late at night and did not wish to wake up his wife, a squad of 20 Paris policemen and a section of the fire brigade were mobilised last night. At 2 a.m. Mine. Tecrouy, who was not so •sound asleep as her husband hoped, telephoned to the police that a burglar Was walking about on the roof. Immediately in motor-cars and sidecars the police arrived at the scene in the Rue Madame. The fire brigade ladder was reared against the building and police and firemen seized a man on the roof who was apparently looking for a skylight. He explained that he was M. Tecrouy hut that as he was very late he had reached the roof by an emergency staircase and had groped around trying to enter his flat by the boxroom window. M. Tecrouy spent the rest ot the night at the police station until the truth of his statement had bee ft provod. He was then allowed to go home and try to explain matters to his wife.