GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2047, 28 October 1919, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

No fewer than seven unsolved murder problems confront (he. English police at present. The murderers of Nellie Rault, the W .A.A.C., at Bedford, and of Bella Wright, who was shot on the highway near Leicester by a cyclist in grey, are still at large. So is the man who murdered Mrs Elizabeth ilidgeley at Hitchin on January 25th —the labourer who was arrested for the crime being acquitted at Hertford .Assizes, There arc three cases concerning soldiers. A Canadian s bq.dy was found in a chalkpit at Epsom early in June; another Canadian died from morphia poisoning at a Brixton public house in July, and a. Northumberland Fusilier was shot in the back and killed at Didcot in the same month. All three mysteries are unsolved. Finally, there is the mysterious death of a woman at Cardiff on July 13th, presumed to be due either to murder or to the explosion of a live cartridge in the lire at which she was cooking.

A remarkable cure is reported to have taken place at SI. "Winifred's Well, Holywell, the person benefited being Joseph Culshaw, an ex-sol-dier, whose sight, is said to have been restored. Culshaw had been practically blind since September, 1915, ,parl of which time he had been in St. Dunstan’s Hostel, where he had been taught shoe-repairing. He went to Holywell mi July (ith with a friend, who then had to lead him about. He bathed in tin 1 well on the following Monday, and when he come out of the water he remarked to those around that he could sec flowers on the floor, which had laden from the front of the statue oi St. Winifred. He bullied again on the three following days, and the sight eoiitinued to improve eaeh dav. Seen by a reporter. Culshaw appeared to be able to see (piile easllv, and he ran up an awkward staircase with ease, and appeared io be able to move about with as much certainly as any norma! individual. 11 e could also read large newspaper type, and tell the tune.

An aerial wedding ceremony, which took place recently hpAmerica, was attended hy no less than 200,n0t) persons. The hridal pair circled- overhead in one aero]Jane, the minister being in another, and the ceremony was conducted by menus of wireless telephony between ihe two ’planes. Only the members of the wedding parly were equipped with telephone devices, which enabled them to hear the words of the minister and the responses oi. the hridal couple, hut the crowds on the grandstand listened to the ceremony through a megaphone which stood in front of the grandstand, and all could see the two aeroplanes, which /uoved slowly around I he. race track. The hridal ear was distinguished by trailing white ribbons, and toward it the thousands of spectators levelled their Held glasses. Something of the dignify of the marriage service came to the vast crowd, and hold it momentarily silent as 1 ho man with the megaphone shouted.

The visit of the “(lliosl of Asmodul” to :i house iu Culverstone Crescent, Diilsloii, was one of the reasons j>‘iveil at Shoreditch bounty Court Avhy Aaron Museovileh desired to regain possession of certain rooms from Melig Siemlon. a Helgian refugee. Muscovite!) complained (hat Siemlon slaughtered fowls in his bedroom, and the stairs were constantly running with blood. Every Saturday night Siemlon carried out Jewish rites, which meant making a loud noise until the early hours'of the morning. Clothes were also washed upstairs, and (be water triehled through the floor on to h bed. Ivera Muscovite!), a son, said that the riles mentioned were handed down from the Pharisees. A great noise was necessary to force down the ghost which belonged to a legend of the Queen of Sheba. Sicmlon, who gave evidence through a Jewish minister, said that he ceased to slaughter fowls when a complaint was made, lie was obliged to perform the rites because he was a Jew, but there was no noise. Judge Cluer decided that, as the slaughtering of fowls had ceased, he eould not make an order for possession. You may have wondered sometimes why the village smithy is such a dark building, its allowance of window light being fearfully small. The reason foj this is not economy of glass, but for the special purpose of the smith’s work. Too much light upon the pieces of white-hot iron or steel is not desirable for two reasons; one is that the “heat” cannot he seen properly in a strong'lights The other is .that in the course of' “tempering’-’- tools, such as picks, chisels, drills, etc., the smith has to judge by the colours, as the tool cools down from the white beat, exactly when to dip them in the waterbath, and these colours can only be seen accurately in a.shaded place.

A"young married woman named Thorne and her six-year-old daughter were recently burned to death in Manor Lane, Lee, and the child, in hospital, told a dramatic story. The husband, an engineer, left for work at half-past six. Half an hour later neighbours heard screams, and found the child in Haines in the garden. The police were called, and found Mrs Thorne on a burning bed. The smoke in the room was so dense that a constable could not enter until he had obtained a covering for his face. The woman was then dead, but the little girl was taken to the Millar Hospital, Greenwich, suffering from terrible burns. The child stated that her mother told her she was going to heaven, and then set fire to the child’s clothing, and to the bed. The fire was put out before it had spread from the bed. Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at . Perreau’s ? *