TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1769, 11 September 1895, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

. y//d DEATH OF AN M.L.Q? . , Wellington, Sunday...." The Hon. Walter B. D, Mantell, Member of the Legislative! Council, died at bis residence, Sydney-street, at midnight last night, < after a brief illness, aged 75 yehrs. ■ The horn gentleman had attended athis place in • the- Legislative Council almost every day this session, and his somewhat sudden demise was due to failure of the heart’s action. DEATH OF MR SAMUEL SEDDON _ '■(.-• Hamilton, Sunday . Mr Samuel Seddon died to-day. His remains have been removed from the hospital to his father’s house. The funeral will take place to day. Mr Seddon was married to a* daughter lof■■''Dr...Nicholson, • late Provincial ; Treasurer of l Auckland/ and leaves 'three• children. - The deceased was manager of the Horton estate. JACK THE RIPPER EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENTS

Wellington, Monday. ‘ In the Stipendiary Magistrate's Court .this afternoon, F. H. Von Schooneberg appeared on information, charged with libelling E. • Jellicoe, solicitor, in a letter written to Mrs Chemis. Defendant who has appeared both in the Supreme and Magistrate’s Court lately, as interpreter in various cases brought by Knigge, restaurant-keeper versus bis wife, all of which ended in a fiasco, asked for a remand as he could not get a solicitor to act for .him. He made a rambling statement accusing’•persona of being desirous to injure him, and said that he had been, twice accused of sbootmg persons wlfilev aE the while lie was trying to bring “ Jack the Bipper,” whom he knew all about, to justice. He gave a description of ‘the Bipper;’ who, he said, had. been stopping in his house in ■ Timaru for some time. ‘ Jack's ’ redlvname was Karl Kappe. He was an aiiiisfc, * a spoilt artist, - of no means and no trade, a countryman of his, and Was in addition a cannibal. Defendant said he had seen him take pieces out of the bodies of his victims and eat them 1 when hejwas hungry.’ At this stage Mr Martin decided to adjourn the libel .case until Friday, and in the meantime Schoeneherg (agreed to substantiate charges re Bipper in private to the magistrate.