NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1929, Page 8

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

CIGARETTES FOR Id. For stealing a sixpenny packet of cigarettes from a slot machine by means of a filed farthing, Wilfred Kite, 87, of Railton Road, Brixton, London, was at Lambeth Police Court lines.. 40s. “You evidently r - have an outfit at home for the purpose,” said the magistrate. It was stated that Kite was seen to insert a liled farthing in the slot of a machine, and at his home there were found a filed farthing, a table-vice, and a number of files. Kite said he used the. tools for wireless. A SLIM BURGLAR. By taking away a few bricks in the hack of a shop and making a hole 2ft by ]ft, a burglar was able.to steal jewellery worth over £lOllO from the premises of S. Reiner, of Norton Folgate, London. A caretaker was in another part of the building at the time. ’J no burglar first broke a window at the hack of the shop, and finding the door leading to the front was secured he made the hole in the wall. The fact that the hole was small indicates that the burglar was slimlv built. COMEDY AND TRAGEDY. Unaware that his mother, who had brought him. to the school, had died suddenly, a little bov of seven went through his part in a sketch given at an old folks! treat at Eurlsheaton, near Dewsbury (Yorks). The hoy had been brought to the school by his mother, Mrs Emm is Iloldswortli, aged 38, of Earlsheoton, and as she was leading him up to the steps of the platform she was taken ill and died soon after. Neither the hoy nor the old folks present knew of the tragedy. BANDITS’ NEW TRICK. For the second time within two weeks there was a revolver hold-up at the Victoria petrel service station, in Edgware ,Road, Crioklpwood. One evening recently a car, with three men, drove up, and the men asked for an electric light hull). When the cash register was opened for the purpose of giving change the attendant was held up with a revolver while the till was cleared* 7he bandits made off with between £5 and £O. The previous incident happened the day before Good Friday. On that occasion three men were involved, and they held up the night attendant with revolvers. CARUSO’S EARNINGS. Caruso, the great tenor, was, it is stated by some of the newspaper men in New York, very generous. He used to give them each year he was in that city a sum of about 1500 dollars as a douceur. A man in a position such as that of Caruso could easily afford to do this, 1 because in New York alone he got a 1 fee of 2100 dollars for each time he sang—and that was at least sixty times in a season—besides being invited to sing five or six times at Atlantic City at a honorarium of 1000 dollars a time; so that this famous singer made in one season in America a sum of 200,000 dollars, besides 30,000 dollars for his gramophone records.

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