GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2463, 5 August 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Angered because of alleged unfaithfulness of her lover, Josephine Liberato, 21 years old, went, says a message from Pueblo, Colorado, to the Loretto Academy, a girls’ school, and asked to see Conquello Baca, 16-year-old daughter of her lover, and shot her in the head with a small calibre revolver and then turned the gun on herself, but the mechanism failed. She was arrested. Liberato told the police that about six months ago she went to a Dr. J. E. Baca for medical treatment. The doctor, she said, told her that his home life was unpleasant and intimated his friendship for her and a love affair sprang up between them. According to the police,, Baca wrote his wife telling her about the other girl and claimed that the other girl was a. “poisonous snake” and that she had broken up his home. A gipsy woman named Aschella Price now at Newport, (England), Workhouse, claims to be 106 years of age. She was taken from her gipsy encampment at Liswerry to the workhouse, but expresses a preference for a free open air life. She says she only slept in a house a few days all her life, the rest having been spent in a van. There is no writing to show her age, and Mrs Price, who can neither read nor write, is not able to fix it by the recollection of any national event of outstanding importance. She says she is the mother of 15 children, and her eldest daughter, aged 73, is in the workhouse with her. Born in Derbyshire, and leading a roving life, her particular solace is a clay pipe and tobacco, which she has been accustomed to for many years.