NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2421, 27 April 1922, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

Ernest Sawyer, pseiulo-millionaire and described as sin accomplished swindler, turned hid back upon Sing Sing prison, after completing three years and seven months of a sentence imposed upon him in Manhattan for grand larceny. Sawyers, who is intellectually brilliant, was last said to have swindled a bank out of £20,000, by posing as a retired millionaire and using a forged telegram. While in Sing Sing Sawyer proved a literary genius, writing about everything from an ode to a drama. A Woman’s limbs found in a dustbin in the Ha rehill d istrict of Leeds, after causing some excitement, were identified as part of a mummy, once the property of Mr James' Hillvard, a local undertaker, who had a small private museum. On Mr Hillyard’s death the mummy became the property of an auctioneer’s clerk, Mr IT. Winwood, who hoped to sell it to a doctor. “I failed to do this,” he said yesterday, “and finding I could nol conveniently move it from place to place I dismembered (lie mummy and burned the trunk at the undertaker’s. The limbs remained in my lodgings until T moved, and whom 1 found my suit case would only lake the head, T left the feel and hands behind. ’ I suppose the landlady threw 1 hem in the dustbin.” A doctor who saw the feet described them as small, beautiful, and well-preser-ved, and likely to be very old. He thought they were not those of an Englishwoman. A strike of 100 girls, employed by Messrs. Hepworth and sons, wholesale clothiers, Leeds, to enforce the reinstatement of live girls discharged for infringing the firm’s rule that no person shall smoke on the premises, has ended. The strikers returned to work on the advice of their • trade union. The discharged girls were not reinstated. Their case will be dealt with by the union. A union official said the girls struck because they felt tliei-o was no proof that the live girls had been smoking. During a civil action at Devon Assizes at Exeter, Mr Justice Rowlafl ordered a woman juror to leave the box as she had spoken to an interested party during the adjournment. The woman assured the judge that <she had not spoken about the case and said: “We did not know as we have nol had a vole very long. The Judge: “What has the vote to do with it? Tt is common-sense instinct. It is not suggested that you did anything you should be ashamed of, but you cannot be too particular abouf these matters.” The woman then left the box.

The sands of I lie River Elder have l)0(*n found to he rich with gold, according to reports from Wnldeck in Thuringia, and companies have been organised in Berlin to exploit them. Gold has been known to he in the river sands for several yeTrrs, hut, until a recent drought which virtually dried up the stream, it was not realised that the deposits were rich enough to make their exploitation commei’cially profitable. Modern machinery is to he used and the promoters say they are certain they can recover millions of marks’ worth of yellow metal. The Elder River rises in Rhenish Prussia, 42 miles northeast of Coblenz, and flows into the River Fulda near Cassel. Dr Charles A. Walters, assistant roentgenologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, (old the American Roentgen Ray Society recently that X-ray treatment of infected tonsils and adenoids had proved remarkably successful. Tonsils so swollen that the throat nearly had been closed had shrunk almost to normal, he said. Dr James T. Cffse, of Battle Creek, said that life was being extended, pain relieved and that apparent cures in from 20 to 25 per. cent, of cases that had appeared hopeless were being effected through the treatment of cancer with the X-ray and radium. fie said:— “It is a well known surgical principle that cases are not considered cured until five years have elapsed. None of the cases treated with X-ray and radium is more than three years old, but after that period there are 20 to 25 per. cent, of the cases that seemed hopeless apparently free from symptoms.