GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

POLAR EXPLORER DEAD

(United Pres- Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.;

LONDON, November 26. Obituary—The polar explorer, Otto Sverdrup.

GERMAN POLICE TRIAL

KILLING OF C, S. MACK AY. RECALLED :

BERLIN, November 2-5.

In connection - with the May Day riots here last year,' when forty civilans including the Now "Zealand journalist, C. E. Mackay (ex-Mayor and solicitor of Wanganui) were killed by the; police, two police officers and a sergeant were charged with gross illtreatment. The sergeant was senenced to four months’ imprisonment. The officers were acquitted. Evidence was given that the police completely lost their heads, and Mutually truncheoned citizens while the officers looked passively on.

BUTTER TARIFF

SUGGESTED U.S. INCREASE.

[Received this day at 8.30. a.in.) , VANCOUVER, November 26.

A message from Sioux Falls states Congressman C. M. Christopher, of South Dakota district urged the butter tariff be increased through the flexible provision of the present law. He said the recent offer of five million pounds of Australian butter for New York markets, which immediately depressed ■ the domestic prices, calls for an immediate increase in the tariff.

MURDER AND SUICIDE; NEW YORK, Nov. 12

Edward Maddox, who had become estranged from his wife, ran amok at Kansas City and kidnapped his young stepson. Then be Hed into the country and barricaded himself in a deserted farmhouse. The police attempted to dislodge Maddox with a machine-gun, but feared to injure the boy. They then assaulted the place with tear bombs. Maddox killed the boy and himself ■with a. shotgun rather than surrender. FRENCH MYSTERY. PARIS, Nov. 25. Despite a dramatic confrontation, the Public Prosecutor announced lie was not preferring any charge against An dree Le lontre whose several months custody had damped his ardour for notoriety, whfoli prompted n false confession when arrested on a charge of assaulting another woman, that he killed the English woman . Mistress Florence Wilson at Le Touqiieto two years ago. Leloutre subsequently retracted all his sitate/mentis and denied having anything to do with the crime.

He was taken on loth September to tire scene of the crime where it was reconstructed and lie was identified by a witness as a youth seen on. the night of the murder near the place where it was committed.

Leloutre was then taken back to prison pending further investigations.