NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1930, Page 3

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

BURGLARS “DIDDLED.” Two men broke into Foyle’s bookshop in Charing Cross ltoad, and were ripping open a safe, when they were heard, and the caretaker telephoned the police. The men were taken <•' Marlborough Street police station nil charged with breaking into the shop and stealing £2 6s. A roprosoiitati. ■ of a firm who Lave unices in the sain building, armed with a property revolver, held the men up until the o>3 ice arrived. A FAMOUS HOAX. Cliolmomleley Castle, Cheshire, was the scene some years ago of a famous practical joke. In (he small hours of a January morning the castle was “raided” by. “burglars,” who took away in a motor car a large quantity of valuables, including several heirlooms and the famous Southdown racing cup. The raid, however, was found to be the work of friends who were attending a neighbouring house party, and a Duke played the part oi “Raffles.”

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Miss Betty Lutyens, daughter of Sm Edwin Lutyens, R'.A., escaped with severe cuts and bruises when the car she was driving near Bury St.’ Edmunds skidded,, turned a somersault, and was wrecked. A passing motorist found Miss Lutyens and her companion, AL Joubert, on the roadside. Miss Lutyens wounds were stitched "p at Bury Hospital, where M. Joubert also was attended to. A valuable dog, which was also thrown out of rhe car, could not afterwards lie found. v AVEDDING—THEN FUNERAL. Only a week after their marriage Mr and Airs Hugh Owen attended the funeral o. one of their wedding guests. They were leaving the home of the bride’s parents at Albert Road, Bexley, nfter the reception, when .Miss’Gay Freestone, who was one of the party, jumped on to the running-board of their car to throw confetti. As the car moved off she slipped and fell, remaining conscious- Just long enough ask that she should he taken to the Bexley Mental Hospital, where for some years she had been a charge nurse, and where she subsequently died.