GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2317, 18 August 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

“The conduct of this man .was so inhuman that I can scarcely credit it.” This stern comment was made by the coroner at an inquest at Newport, Mon., on William Casey, a telegraph messenger boy, who was drowned while bathing in a brickyard pond. Charles Henry Walton, a schoolboy, told the coroner that Casey was his friend. “I was bathing, too.” he continued, “and when Casey got into difficulties I ran for help to .a man who was watering his garden. I fold hint that a boy was drowning. The man replied, ‘I am too busy.’ ” The boy was questioned, but adhered to his statement. Another man, however, jumjed into the pond fully dressed, in a vain effort at rescue. He was complimented by the coroner, who added

that lie could not find words! in which to speak of such callous conduct as that exhibited by the individual with the watering can. Casey’s mother was almost blind, and had a hard struggle to maintain her family. “Accidentally drowned” was the verdict recorded. An unusual ruling Ims been given by the Federal authorities at Akron, Ohio, by which a man will be allowed to keep two wives and be compelled to support them. Giuseppe Sarniola, accompanied by wife No. 1 with a ten-yeai’-old son, and wife No. 2 leading a little boy and carrying a baby, called at the police headquarters at Akron, to pour out his troubles. Sarniola married wife No. 1 in Italy eleven years ago, later came to America, and four years ago he sent for her, but owing to the war heard nothing, and presumed she was dead. Then he met a Pennslyvania widow. She became his wife, and two children were born. Mrs Sarinola No. 1 and her son reached" Akron recently on an immigrant train. Sarniola was distracted. The Federal authorities, after an investigation, told Sarniola to take his wives home and support. them. -The wives agreed to love each oilier and live peaceably together. They left police headquarters arm in arm. “I love them both, they love each other. AN e all love. I keep them all. They say so,” said Sarniola, in broken English.

A simple experiment in chemistry by a four-year-old New York boy with no greater aim in view than than that of giving himself a new and amusing sensation, started a bomb scare in his block which brought everybody rushing to the street in panic. All that be did was to touch a lighted match to a toy gas balloon. It was not that be desired to destroy the balloon. Il was a pretty green thing, and bobbed about comically every time be punched it. But having found a match, and having the balloon string tied about bis waist, the boy scratched the match, and put the two together, and so delved into the realm of chemistry. The explosion, according to the neighbours, boomed out of the open windows in a momentarily stillness like high explosive. Children in the streets ran for their homes, and were nearly knocked down by the parents running out. The crowd that gathered sent calls for the police, firemen, and ambulances, and wondered why the bouse where the young experimenter lived did not collapse. Some went to find out. The boy’s mother was busy with a tenant, who had rushed down beating out the flames that had caught the boy’s clothing., and set the apartment afire.