NEWS FROM ABROAD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 5, 30 June 1911, Page 6

NEWS FROM ABROAD.

LIVED AND DIED TOGETHER. By the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, of Upper Norwood (says a London message), a story of lifelong devotion and companionship lias been revealed. Mr. Bennett was a pensioned Post Ofliec overseer, and lie and his wife had lived in their cottage for thirty-four out of their fifty-two years of married life. He was seventy-nine years of age. On Monday evening, May 15, Mr. Bennett insisted on going out into his gardeu to do a little gardening. He had lately suffered much from a weak heart, and he had hardly begun gardening ! when he was taken ill. Beckoning to his- daughter, he was assisted into the house, and sat with his wife, who was much distressed at his mness. She, however, bravely kept from her husband her great anxiety, and remained with him until he died a few minutes later. Then her grief could be controlled no longer. Rising from her chair she said to her daughter, "I think I shall soon follow him." The words were hardly uttered when she fell hack into the chair and died in a few minutes. In relating the sad story their daughter stated that 1 her father and mother were devoted to each other, and had hardly ever been parted during all their married life. SECRET POLICE DRAMA. M. Raskaltoff, Chief of the Secret Police nt Archangel, has, says Renter's St, | Petersburg correspondent,Vomniitted suicide. The local newspapers explain the motive of his act as follows: . Not long since M. Ko=togi>rorT, an Archangel millionaire, received ;u>. anonymous letter informing him in the name of a group of political exiles that if he did not deposit a sum of .£sl) nt a certain place and at a certain time the face of his only daughter would be watered with vitriol. It was added that it, would be viiin on his part to go to the' secret police. M. Kostogoroff, on receiving the let-' !ev. went to the gendarmery headquarters and the authorities arranged an ambush for the designed rendezvous. M. Kostogoroff, when the time arrived, placed the envelope at the spot indicated. A man with his face more or less con- ( cealed walked rapidly towards tho cadne. Gendarmes seized him and he was somewhat roughly handled before his identity was discovered. Ho ,«as the head of the secret police. The gendarmery officer tried to explain away the incident to his men and M. Raskaltoff was not arrested on the spot, .but he shot himself before tiie affair could ho officially investigated.