PROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 14 June 1915, Page 3

PROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A DETECTIVE SHOT. Frank Siegel, an Erie Railroad detective, living at 15, Howell Street. Jersey City, was shot, probably fatally, by a robber at Waldwick, on April 10, the bullet passing clean through his , body. Siegel caught sight of two men : who were attempting to rob a freight train, and was placing them under arrest when one fired at him. He vas hurried to Paterson on a train, and taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, while deputy sheriffs from Hackensack smarted on a hunt for the robbers. BOLD TRAIN BANDITS. Buffalo, N.Y.j April 15—Ten masked and armed mne held up a New Yoik Central freight train at Sanborn, about 15 miles from Buffalo, at 2 o’clock on the morning of April 15. uncoupled and looted the cars. Ten automobile trucks were filled with the stolen goods. Engineer Goss, of Syracuse, escaped from the robbers and ran his engine eight miles to Suspension Bridge for. help. Within half an hour hundreds of armed men began scouring the country tor th e robbers, but none of them nave been arrested, PERFORMING HORSE KILLS MIG MASTER* George C. Smart, a retired dairyman living at 1834, San Jose Avenue, San Francisco, died recently from injuries he received when an old horse he had been teaching “tricks” for 25 years, fell on him while performing one of the equine feats. A number of friends had been invited to witness the performance in the rear of the Smart home. The climax came when “Dandy,” the horse, raised himself on his hind legs and followed his master about the yard. Smart was standing in front of the horse when the animal’s legs gave way. The heavy body ct the horse fell on his master, crushing him to the ground “FLASHING HIS MONEY.” Martin Raminovich, a janitor at 73, We A van Burcn Street, Now York, has (c pass through the kitchen of Lawson’s basement to tend the He was passing through the kitchen (■heather morning when he pulled a roll -f 27Odd. from bis pocket and 'showed Tto Fred. Moyers, the cook. “My brother gave it to me to keep for him, explained Martin. “Lend it to me a minute,” said Meyer. “I want to take :.t out here and flash it on Agnes and he other waitress.” Martin gave re to him, and he jokingly showed it to the waitresses. The janitor went down into tii c v basement to tend the fire. When ho came back Meyer was no longer cock for Lawson’s restaurant.

FIGHT ON A LOCOMOTIVt. A- the result.of a desperate struggle oa the footplate of an engine, William Wallis, a shunter, was at Redford (Kelts) sent for trial, charged with, stabbing an assistant shunter, Walter Wort.liiugt.cn. The men quarrelled when on the engine, and Wallis was said to have drawn a knife and stabbed Worthington, four times. His excuse was that he was nearly strangled. A CHILD HEROINE. Margaret Low, a 12-year-old Greenock girl, took a relative’s baby out in a perambulator. She went along the embankment of Cowdonknowles dam; As she did not return, search was made. The perambulator wits seen floating in the water, and late in the evening the bodies were recovered. It is supposed that the perambulator was either blown over or toppled into the pond, and that the girl was drowned while trying to save the baby. “ HiNDEiMBERG TEA.”

How an Allenstein innkeeper attempt ted to evade the regulations that are now in force in East Prussia, forbidding the supply of alcoholic drinks after certain hours, is related in the “Vorwaerts.” It was discovered that customers were being supplied with, drink after 11 o’clock, the prohibited hour and those who asked for soda water received cognac, while schnapps was served out in cups. Rum grog was also to be had under the name of “Hindenberg tea,” while red wine was deled out in coffee cans under the pseudonym of “Hindenberg coffee.”' The obliging innkeeper was tried before a court-martial, and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.