GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 171, 24 March 1915, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A SYSTEMATIC MURDERER

MARRIED AND MURDERED FOR MONEY.

LONDON, March 23

Smith is charged with murdering Beatrice Mundy in July, 1912; Alice Burham, December, 1913; Margaret Lofty, December, 1914. Mr Boden prosecuting, said Smith obtained £2,800 by two of the deaths and might have obtained £7OO by the third. During the period in which the crimes were committed, Smith intermittently cohabited with a fourth woman whom he bogusly married, his legal wife, whom he married in 189 S, being still alive. In all three cases he pqrsuaded the women to make wills appointing him sole legatee, and all were drowned in their baths. Smi.tli always being first to discover 1116' death. Mundy was the daughter of a bank manager at Weymouth, inheriting £2,500. Smith was born, at Bow in 187,2, and was for sometime a dealer in second-hand furniture and antiques.

JAPANESE COLONISATION EFFORTS.

STRONGLY CRITICISED IN CHINA

TOKIO, March 23

Japanese action at Shantung and Tsingtao has aroused much criticism in foreign communities in China. British traders 'remember that Korea was once open, and is new barred by a Japanese tariff Japanese similarly favoured tire Manchuria harbour, mouth of the Shantung, blocked three vessels and sunk German ships until the main harbour [was -available. Japanese agreed upon four British ships tenterinJr monthly. Many Japanese are swarming into Tsingtao, the worst of undesirables, who are looting freely.