GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2265, 19 April 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

The Liverpool police withdrew a charge of abandoning her baby made against Eleanor Geogliegan, her statement when previously before the . magistrate that she had given it away to an unknown woman who had admired it in the street being proved to be true. The' child had since been well cared” for, “America uses more rouge and beauty creams per woman than any other country in the world,” says Mr \Y. G. Hamilton, a director of the first Modern Beauty Mart at Chicago, which is to be attended by women noted for their beauty in all parts of America. “J shall he better in gaol this cold weather,” remarked John Thompson (27). collier, when arrested at Blackburn for being drunk. He received his desire by being committed for one month, and he greeted his'sentence with evident salislaet ion.

Mr H. G. Everett, the young man who escaped from Colney Hatch Asylum, concluded a seven and ahalf days’ address to the Law Lordin I lie House of Lords in hi- case, in which he alleges that the elmir,man and doctor of the 1.-lington Board of Guardian- were careless in certifying him for detention in the institution. The coffirflmd been bought and all preparations made for the funeral in Paris of a young girl who, her parents thought, had died after a lingering illness of some months. When, a doctor arrived to sign the death certificate lie discovered that the girl was not dead, lml in a cataleptic (ranee. She had been a sufferer from lethargic encephalitis. For probate purposes the estate of Mr Christopher Bickering, of Hornsea, Juts been sworn at £293,2(i4, Tie begniif&lifojis a cabin boy, afterwards became deck hand on a trawler, and eventually was one of the biggest trawler owner- in the country. During hi- lifetime he gave to Hull and Hornsea considerably over £100,009. Charitable benefactions under his will amount lu it considerable sum.

While two young men riding on a motor car along Mumble- Road, Swanson,, approached a corner at 30 miles an hour, they both looked back at a woman. As a result they crashed into a motor lorry, which turned the corner. One of the motor cyclists, John Isaac Williams, was hurled 15ft. over the head of the lorry driver, and killed. Williams’ companion, Evan Feltham, was seriously injured. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest.

The story of the 11-year-old hov, Leonard Bracher. who was fond of lassoing and ended his life by accidentally hanging' himself on a door handle, was told at Bideford record ly. George Passmore, a relative, said the hoy frequently lassoed the family cat, and the day before his death witnessed an exhibition hy a woman, who, tied lighily with a yope to the mast of a vessel on t he quay, freed herself while in mid-air. The boy was found hanging to the handle of the door with his neck in a razor strop. • A doctor said the hoy must have become frightened when the strop tightened round his neck, and was strangled before he could release himself. A verdict of accidental strangling was returned. Bather than servo a long term of imprisonment for highway* robbery,.

Thomas Henry Morris asked a Worcestershire’ Assizes for a flogging. When the judge ordered the man IS strokes with the “cat” and six months’ imprisonment, Morris, remarked with satisfaction, “Hear, hear.” Morris was charged in conjunction with” Abraham Winkinsbn. Both belong to Dudley,-and were described as army deserters. Mr Justice Darling said the prisoners had emulated Dick Turpin. They waylaid a man at night, struck him on the head, {ragged him, and rilled Ids pockets. They carried Union Jacks with eye-holes, to use as masks. Wilkinson, who is 18, was ordered two years at a Borstal institution.