NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 63, 5 September 1911, Page 7

NEWS OF THE WORLD.

HELL-BOY'S CRIME. MURDER OF A MILLIONAIRE. j .SENSATIONAL TRIAL IN PROGRESS. Xe,\v York, August 28. Paul Giedel, the seventeen-year-old youth who is charged with the murder of Mr. IT. Jackson, an aged Wall Street broker and millionaire, by whom be was employed as a bell-boy, was placed upon his trial to-day. The case has excited great interest, and as a result of the inkling that the public hud got of the revelations that were likely to be made, the court was crowded this morning. Because of the sensational evidence which is expected to he forthcoming, involving some of the most prominent persons in the city, the presiding judge had the court cleared of all spectators, and the bearing is now proceeding with closed doors. The presence of even the boy's mother was disallowed, but Mrs. Geidel was permitted to occupy a small room adjoining the court. It is understood that ample funds have been provided for young (ieidel's defence, but those who have supplied the money have done so anonymously. The New York detectives were completely mystified over the murder of the millionaire 'broker until Geidel confessed his guilt. The boy's story, as told in the confession which he gave to the police, was that he was discharged by his employer, and that the latter refused to pay the wages that were due to him. Giedel therefore attempted to drug Jackson as he slept, and was thrusting a chloroformed rag down his throat when the old man awoke and started to struggle. The boy then hit him a heavy blow on the head with a steel jemmy, "and the chloroform," as he stated in his confession, "did the rest." RACE SUICIDE IN FRANCE. LIMITATION" OF FAMILIES. Paris, August 28. That race suicide is proving of incalculable value in accomplishing France's material and educational prosperity is the contention of the leaders of the Malthusian Society, the annual convention of which has just been opened, j Mr. Edward Thery, the economist, j quoted statistics to show that the naI tional wealth had increased beyond all proportion to the population, amounting, as it did, to £29-2 per head, which had not been approached by any other nation within the last ten years. Even the families of the working classes were now not exceeding three children, with the result that they were , better eared for, and illiteracy was practically lion-existent. . THE MALTIIL'SIAN THEORY. ' It was in 1798 that the Rev. T. R. Malthus, .the famous political economist, published his..well-known "Essay on the Principle of .Population." The aim of the essay was to supply a reasoned cor-1 rective to the, tji.eories. regarding the perfectibility of society, which had been diffused Jiis school, and which hacF liroril advo'cated in England by Goodwill ',-' Mafthtjs Maintained that such optimistic hopes''a're : rendered baseless by t)ie., l nitfural-'t'en(lency of population Jo increase' faster than the means :'of sdlisTsfence'r 'He ; poiiVted' out that .both m'tllc'animafiarid ..vegetable kingdoms, life iras.'sb 'prolific' that if allowed free" room to multiply it would fill miliums" (if''w.orl'dV'ii!'the .course of a few thousand years. The only limit to ' its increase is the"Want pf room and f00d.",...'" ', " ,: '.';; '," . ■' YYitYi : rega.i:if.;to mai}, the question is compliWjted/by thS'fa'e't'that the instinct of. pr!ipa»a.lNryf,'iis fiin'trflleii by reason: .-'hilt :e"\'eh -In fy'lfiliate check to pi'pytTiUjWrs T U're J want of' foo.d, only ;it- selflonl d^-'eotjy, ijnit take's ia : vnfi( l rp''ot fbfpis jh','aYc'QrdaiK'c with v'the The :more'|nin' ( prcvenUve_;, Ijie ( /prmei\ appear as' moral■ restra'in'i ,s 3r'yicfl v l'jie i positive <b*ck.&i-e ! 'exccedi (^ '.'all'- jiimvTioV'sq'me" ; peep 1 Rations', severe fabois'iiiuj, exposiiri!Jy seasons, ex!tremc'"p_oVe"rtv, chijdren, large _towns, .ex'eeSes,'''of ,'all ...kind*, the ".whole train of disease.s. a,n.4 epi<lemi*s.7v.!a^.l'nißgtij!_anjl' lamine,. .'■■ M lift bus'.. '.JVent '^ii'3[o, r i'(i'us)!rate the -actiop'pFJljs, 'prine^lejy^'ajeyvew.of.t'hc , bistorV of r flip' '(lifT^renC^,nations and races'; showing Wjl'iat'aPe' tluj.'usu,al checks - tGat '■ > f;*Vv<"" i wars, Infantjcuje,' plagues',' vicious pra'c-tices-rajuf pro'-vjpV tV\§i \\£ -population difficulty lias affected t development -of SoC'/'ty 3 ''from^tli^'W&mnin^'' < ,V V •" : ' ?»-■' V -r'l