THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 284, 25 November 1908, Page 4

THE WORLD'S NEWS.

GIRLS COMPELLED TO MAURY HEFORE LANDING. NEW YORK, October 8. Three English brides arrived here today on the Majestic, and were married on' the liner before they were allowed to land. They were Miss Alice Osborne, of Birmingham, .Miss Mildred Brand, of London, and Miss Rosa Webb, of Portsmouth, and they were married respectively to -Messrs W. H. Smith, E. 0. Downer, and R. Dcason, all Englishmen who have been here a "year preparing homes for their brides. The wedding took place in the ship's library, in accordance with the new law which requires that aliens arriving in America for the purpose of being married must have the ceremony performed before landing. The Rev. J. E. Price, of New York, officiated, and ship's stewards acted as witnesses.. The captain gave the wedding breakfast in the saloon and the newly-married pairs were afterwards put ashore under showers of rice.

RAILWAY MURDER IN INDIA. ARREST OF THE ME\ T WHO KILLED A BRIDE. CALCUTTA, October 7. The murderers of Miss Taylor, daughter of a Crimean veteran, have been arrested. Miss Taylor was killed in a first-class railway compartment in which she was travelling alone on the Indian Northwestern Railway, between Lahore and Multan, on her way to be married. Two Eurasians named Mullins and Shouldhani were to-day arrested, and Mullins confessed that they committed the crime. They entered the compartment by; the corridor during the journey, and attacked -Miss Taylor. Afterwards they proceeded to riile her boxes, which contained 'wedding (presents. When slid tried to stop liioni, Shouldhani cut her throat with a cluspknife. The two criminals, who are notorious railway thieves, started for Calcutta, concealing the jewellery they stole in the window slot in the door of the carriage. They had written down the number of the carriage, with the intention of afterwards recovering the valuables. This rase is only one of numerous murders of white women which have recently taken place on the railway. A special conference of railway authorities is silting at Simla to devise methods for the protection of passengers.

KIDNAPPING A BRIDE. CHAUFFEUR'S .JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF HIS WIFE. FROM AMERICA TO ENGLAND. NEW YORK, October 2. The romantic element of the daughter of William Spew, a millionaire, of At lanta, Georgia, 'with James |T3ioni'a9, her father's chauffeur, and their subsequent marriage, has had a sensational sequel. The bride's mother succeeded in taking her away from her husband, aft>?r detectives who had been on the track of the eloping couple located them ia. a town in Georgia. .Mrs Speers and her daughter arrived at the dl.olel Astor litre yesterday,; while the bridegruom is on his way to New York to claim his wife forcibly or lake legal proceedings against her parents. .Mr A. K. Rainbo, Mr Spcer's business partner in New York, slates that M.-s Speer and her daughter will sail for Europe to-morrow, hut he declines to give the name of the steamer, in order to prevent Thomas making a scene on the pier. Mrs Thomas, who appears to regard the elopement as a joke, merely laughed when she was questioned by reporteis at the Astor Hotel, and refused to say whether or not she intended to rejoin her husband. It is stated that her family will make 'every effort to induce her to forget her husband, and that a divorce will ultimately be arranged. NEW YORK, October 4.

This romantic elopement is likely to have a sequel in London. Mrs Speer and her daughter sailed yesterday on tlie Campania, after 'the Jntter' litul been ipractically kidnapped from her husband. The family intend to try una annul the marriage. ' I Thomas is also reported to be a passenger on the Campania, and although this has not been confirmed, it is known that he intends pursuing his bride aeross the Atlantic for the purpose of trying to pnrsmulc her t.u return to him. Airs Spoors stated l.eforo sailing that her daughter would nJmatn in' Europe until the question of tin; marriage had been settled one way or the other. Despite the opposition of the Speer family to tlie chauffeur, the newspapers have discovered that 11 r and Mrs Speer were once the principals in a romantic love all'uir. At the time they were married, Air Speer was employed as a cleric by Silvery and Co. millionaire merchants, and his wife was the daughter of tlie head of the firm. After their marriage Mr {speer rose to the presidency of tlie company, which post he now holds. DICK AND DEATH. THE JiAKE'S I'ISOIiIiESS.

l'T,o.\l W'IvALTU TO DESTITUTION IN lilMllT MONTH!?. LONDON, October 8. Few careers have been so remarkable as that of Beresford Lisle, a member of a wealthy and aristocratic Norllium-bcrln-iHI family, who was accused at Bow-street yesterday of attempting 10 steal. Eight months ago, at the a.*e of twenty-one, he eaine into a fortune of i £oWU and an annuity of £IOOO. lie has since squandered the whole of tin I .tijOOO, and has mortgaged the annuity. Shortly after receiving the money hel was charged with abducting two girls in a motor car, and taking one of them to Belgium. He has also been charged with shooting at street lamps with a revolver, and is alleged to ho wauled m various parts of tire country for other oileuces.

At present lie is in a state of destitution. ||(. i|. la 110 uceupation, and in iixed address. When it was slated yesterday that he was caught hi (he net of wre'ncliijgl »ll with a chisel an automatic aiioii'pyl>ox in a lavatory at a tube station he declared, •• I was hungry, anil had no money to pay for „ night's lodging." -\ remand was ordered. Another slory of a ruined life was <"l'l at the inquest held at St. Luke's „„ '•lames Henry Ipcroft, aged nineteen, wlio havigcd himself while temporarily insane. •' j

H<- was said to hare gambled a "Teat 'leal, and all ibat was found in hi- noct* n, 1 1 s ''' " f,li ' l ' A «i>'l told his '"oth'T that she had begged and pmve.l 111111 '" '•»""• with her and leave'hij companion-. l„il he would mil do so. ■'Kien ]„ve would not turn him from gambling, said the coronor. "rt is particularly sail that a lad should commit suicide in the prime of life because of Hie fever of gambling."