INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 12 June 1915, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

■ ■"- <• A BOY HERO'S FATE. ■ ' ) k The riverside village of Than»es.'ls&r ton is proud of the spirit shown by a local lad, Private A. V. Duffel, of \h» East Kent Regiment, who has bse* killed in. action. Duffel, who was .seventeen years cf age, was employed Hi'a local brom.e foundry, and on the outbreak of war he remarked to his males that he was going to "do his bit," adding that he "could •; ,^t. ; at Tiorne '" whilst Uie chaps cut there were beW shot down." Without telling his parents he went to Kingston, and, adding to his cerrest age, he was accepted as a recruit. The Army authorities, £n being informed of his proper age, Ordered his discharge; but, undaunted, the boy a week later went to London, again without the knowledge of his parents, and this tim e enlisted in the Bast Kent regiment. No effort wets made to get him discharged, and m due course, after undergoing his trailing, h e left for Francs. Before embarking, on February 23 ; young Duffr-) sent a postcard to his mother, in which he wrote, "I left it till now to teJI you < , . . but I must do my duty." Unfortunately, the brave lad lost his life in doing his duty, being killed la action on March 14. A BRUTAL FATHER'S CRIME, Samuel Liebman, charged by jjf& New York police with throwing-his two children, Sadi 0 and Samuel, out of the fifth story window of their home, causing th 8 girl's death, was arrested at Philadelphia on information furnished by New York detectives.; At polite headquarters Liebnian' made a franls. confession of his crime. "Several months ago my wife sued me for a Divorce, charging desertion,'" he said. "After 1 had paid expanses of the ; proceeding, which amounted to more than 500dc1., I sav: her, and we.had a' Quarrel over thje children. }. told her that, if I could net have the children, r.he certainly could not have them, so I threw them.put cf the window. That's ail there is to i;." Liebman told how he had lured the children to ih f e Window from whk-h .tie threw them> ""My wife had gone down town to do some shopping, ho said, "and I sat up >ja the rooms with the children. They were'playing together. They always placed when rfie was away. Before she left we had been Quarreling. She u/d me to leave her, and I told her I never would leave the children with her. She said 1 would never have anything to do with them. They were playing going to a fire. I sat watching them. I went to the window and opened it. 'Here's a real fir ft engine coming dow>> the street,' I said, and they came running over. I lif led them up to pee the engine, and then i dropped them."