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Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1931, Page 8

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NOBEL PRIZE. FORMER. WIFE WANTS SHARE

CARSON CITY (Nevada), March 13. Grace Hegger Lewis, former wife of Mr Sinclair Lewis, author of “Rabbit” and other hooks which have gained him distinction, is suing for additional alimony. She particularly 7 claims a portion of the money which Mr Lewis received as winner of the Nobel prize for literature. FATE’S REVENGE. GERMAN STUDENT’S DEATH. BERLIN, March 13. Fate has taken an ironic revenge- on a Gotha law student, who bought a revolver, intending to commit suicide if he failed in his final examination. He, however, passed with honours, and spent a jolly evening celebrating his victory with his fellow students. Back in his rooms, he casually picked up the revolver and accidentally shot himself in one eve. His condition is critical.

EYE THEORY. STRANGE WILL CASE. CHICAGO. March 13. George Mendel mav have known just what the offspring of garden peas would look like when lie mated a dwarf with a tall pea, but witnesses in the Longley will case have taken a sharp issue with -the Austrian monk-botan-its’s declaration that • parents both with blue eyes cannot have browneyed children. George Adair Longley has been in court continuously for seven weeks trying to break the will of tbe late Albert Longley. millionaire manufacturer, who, he claims, was liis father.

Tn rebuttal. Longlev’s third wife, and a dozen charities, which benefited under the will, produced evidence that George Longley. who is brown-eyed, could not bo tbe son of Albert and his first wife, both with blue eyes. Called by Longley, several blue-eyed couples appeared in court, accompanied by brown-eved offspring, and the idea that Mendel's eye theory- was all wrong was further strengthened by Dr. Frank Walls, specialist, who testified that the medical world does not accept Mendelian theories, anyway.

grand slam. TRAGIC DOUBLED VERDICT. KANSAS CITY, March 13. Mrs Myrtle Bennett, aged 35, shot her husband dead as the climax of a quarrel during a game of bridge. The jury acquitted her on the ground ot her humiliation and excitement, and that the gun may have been discharged accidentally while her husband and wife struggled for the. weapon. The Bennetts were playing opposite Mr and Mrs Hoffman, old friends. Mr Bennett opened with one spade bid. Mr Hoffman bid two diamonds. Mrs Bennett jumped her husband’s bid to fouri spad.es. • He played bis hand and went down b.v two tricks. Mrs Bennett criticised bis [play. “You’re a poor player,” she declared, adding that she had laid down a good dummy. Mr Bennett reached over the table and slapped her smartly across the mouth. She screamed and ran to a 'wardrobe, taking a revolver Tom her husband’s overcoat. They struggled with the garment, and Mr Bennett fell with a bullet in his heart, after three shots had been fired. Mrs Bennett said she “didn’t mean to do it ”