GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2349, 1 November 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Bennett Boyd, 18 years old, of El Paso, was ambushed and killed by bandits in Mexico, according to a message received in El Paso by his father. Young Boyd was killed at the Caretas x’anch. The news of his death came in a telegram from his brother, Cecil Boyd, who was on the ranch with him. Bennett and Cecil Boyd were, kidnapped by bandits two years ago in Mexico and held for ransom. For many months they remained in United States, but returned to Mexico after things appeared to have quietened there.

A tradegy of mistaken diagnosis has been enacted at Geneva. The son of a wealthy Swiss banker was sent to Germany to learn German. He fell ill, and a woman doctor was called in and declared him to be suffering from a hereditary disease. The boy returned to Geneva, and physicians who saw him declared that the woman doctor had been mistaken. He was perfectly healthy. The verdict, however, had so preyed on the boy’s mind that lie has been sent to an asylum as hopelessly insane.

Finding difficulty in securing shipping for the large number of Salvationists waiting to proceed to India, General Booth has chartered the Calypso, of the Wilson line. There is room for 12G persons, and every berth will be filled. The party, the largest the Army has ever dispatched to one country at one time, will join the vessel at Hull, which port she will leave flying the Salvation Army flag. Chartering of ships is not new to the Army, for before the war several boats were taken each year for Canada. This is the first, however, to be chartered for India. William Kcttelmann, a flagman at the New York Central liailway crossing at Eleventh Avenue and Fifty-second Street, was killed at his post recently by an automobile which he tried to warn from making the crossing because of the approach of a freight train. The radiatojp of the machine struck him with terrific force. He was dragged 90 feet and most of his clothes were ripped from his body. The driver of the car failed to stop. The crew of the freight train, which reached the crossing a minute later, found Kettclmann’s body and a motormeter, which apparently had broken off the radiator of the murder car. The police are using it as the only due in the case.

There was a suggestion of a happy ending in the case of a girl, Lilian Phillips, milliner, found guilty of petty theft, who appeared at Brighton Police Court. She had been remanded to see whether a home could be found for her, but the woman missionary now told the magistrates that the young man with whom prisoner had been keeping company for two and a-half years was prepared to' marry her in three weeks. If the magistrates allowed this, the missionary said, she would find prisoner accommodation until the wedding. Telling prisoner that she was a very lucky girl, the chairman said she would be remanded for a month. “If you do get married, you need not appear again,” he added. With a happy smile on her face, the girl left the dock.

A boatman’s struggle with a nurse who attempted to throw herself over a Welsh precipice was described in the /Llandudno Police Court, when the woman, Alice Moore, was accused of attempting to commit suicide. A police superintendent said that Miss Moore came to Llandudno for a holiday, and on Friday evening was found on the railway. “She was taken' charge of by the officials, and after once escaping and being recaptured, was given into the care of the proprietor of her boarding-house,” said the superintendent. She paid her bill, and later a bbatman named Lloyd Jones saw her. sliding down the steep slope of the Great Ormo, which ends in a precipice. Jones climbed up, and with great difficulty prevented her throwing herself over the cliff into the sea. The boatman took her home, but she ran out again, and a policeman found her sitting on the Great Orme sobbing.” \