DELAYED CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 11, 7 July 1911, Page 3

DELAYED CABLES.

| MAY DODGE THE GALLOWS. 'MURDERER'S IDENTITY IN DOUBT. Berlin, dune 27. Although freely admitting his guilt, a man who is now under sentence of death for robbery and murder, stands a good chance of escaping the penalty for his atrocious crime.

The prisoner gives 'his name as Robert Kinzle, but serious doubts have arisen as to whether he is really the person whom he represents himself to be. After reading the accounts of the crime published by the newspapers, Kinzle's aged parents, who are living in America, were not satisfied that the murderer was their son, although the particulars given regarding his birth were quite correct.

As far as they knew, their son Rebert was in Calcutta when they last heard Df him, and enquiries which they made revealed the startling fact that he was still in India, and totally ignorant of the crime for which he, or rather someone of his name, had been condemned. The Calcutta Kinzie, however, was able to shed a little light on the mys-1 tery.

He had related tnat some years ago his passport papers were stolen, and the mference, therefore, is that if the man now lying under sentence of death in Berlin was not the actual thief he at least became possessed of the documents and passed himself off as the person to whom they related. Although making no attempt to conceal his guilt, he positively refuses to say who he really is, and as the German law requires that a condemned person's identity shall be established before his execution, it.is probable that the culprit wi/l eventually regain his freedom. AIRMEN TO STARTLE HORSES. BREAKING UP A RACE MEETING.

Paris, June 27

M. Maurice Tabuteau, the French airman, has made a rather startling allegation.

He declares that certain men prominently identified with the labor movement offered him a large sum of money to fly over the racecourse at Chantill'y and frighten the horses running in thi race for the Grand Prix on Sunday next,

The disturbing effect on horses caused by areoplanes in motion has recently been seen in England. List month the Jockey Club, through Lord Lonsdale, wrote to the Royal Aero Club drawing attention to the way in which horses were startled by aviators flying over courses during the race meetings, and asking the club to appeal to all airmen to refrain from making such flights. The committee of the Royal Aero Club has accordingly appealed to the sporting instincts of all aviators to support this very proper and reasonable request, which, the committee said, had its full approbation. SEVENTY - SEVEN KILLED. JAPANESE ML\E EXPLOSION. Tokio, June 26. A colliery disaster that was attended with great loss of life is reported from Tsushima, where, as the result of an explosion, no fewer than 77 men were killed.

FORMOSA'S RETOLT.

AGAINST THE JAPANESE.

Tokio, June 20. Advices from Formosa report that the head-hunters are offering a strong resistance to the advance of the Japanese troops, and the campaign will probably continue for several months. It was lately cabled that a whole Japanese force had been annihilated by the Formosans, and that the dead soldiers were barbarously mutilated. UNITED STATES AND GERMANS. AMERICAN WARSHIPS AT KIEL. Berlin,, June 27. The United States battleships Louisiana, New Hampshire, Kansas and South Carolina are at Kiel, and German naval experts have been commenting favorably on the state of the ships and the appearance and conduct of the officers and men. The newspapers emphasise the friendly connections that exist between the American and the German navies, a feeling that has existed, they say, for all time. The American sailors are cultivating the comradeship of the German tars, and enjoy the cordial fellowship of the whole population of Kiel. Tne festivities on board the flagship, U.S.S. Louisiana, will be attended by the Kaiser, and the American officers wilt visit Berlin in turn.

A METHODICAL BURdLAR. CAREFULLY KEPT RECORD OF 1500 CRIMES. Paris, June 20. A returned convict who was this morning arrested in Paris, informed tlie police that a large quantity of linen found in his room had been given to him by Ji'-trph Chieot in payment of a debt. The police went, to Chicot's house and found in his absence an immense store or linen, silver, clocks, .watches atid £mm in gold and silver

Chicot was arrested, and confessed with the utmost calm that he took up burglary as a business, and that he had 1"00 burglaries to his account.

"For the last five years," he said, "I have committed a burglary nearly every night, with the exception of Saturday night, when people have a way of being at home." He added that 'he had a comfortable sum of money and some valuable jewels in a safe'place where the police would not find them, and that therefore he "went to prison happily."