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ANTI-MOTORING LAWS
IN ITALY
DRASTIC, PROVISIONS OF
THE NEW CODE...
A YEAR IN GAOL FOR SCORCHING.
ROME
TRACKING MURDER IN GERMANY.
CLAIRVOYANTE" AS DETECTIVE,
SUSPECT SEEKS HER" AID."
THE "SUI TAI FIRE:
BONFIRE OF BANK NOTES.
S.S. "WING ON" TO MAIN.
TAIN SCHEDULE,
Among the property lost in the fire abroad the Sui Tai was about 810,000 in bank notes and Canton
ANOTHER STRANGE SCENE OF silver coin. There was in all some
RECONSTRUCTION.
820,000" in the ship but the com- pradore managed to save 84,000 at
181,000 1 considerable personal, risk.
The majority of Italian towns are more adapted for sedan-chairs than the rush of motors and trans Streets are narrow and Italiana apt to be absent-minded when they take their airings abroad, and some streets have no pavements." The boot of the motor-horn" is so incessant in big cities that self- |
A quantity of cargo left by the protection must come through the
sa. Sui An on the wharf was also eyes rather than
hearing
ruined. However, a fair amount Signor Rocco, Minister of Justice,
of cargo was found to be intact, who has just drafted some revolu-
A miller, named Paulick, living in furniture belonging to
including some eighty pieces of tionary. legislation, shows himself
Father entirely in sympathy with the the village of Buchholz, about thirty Ijanel Cariel and Brothers Schaz pedestrian motorists are to smiles south of Berlin, who was daller and Suppo of the Silesian drilled into a cautious and accused of having murdered bis Missionary School at Third Street,
BERLIN, July, 31st. Frau Gunthers-Geffers, the "clair- A lot of personal luggage be- voyante" of Insterburg (East longing to passengers was burnt, Prussia), as she became known after but the cargo was not touched by triumphantly defeating the prosecu-
the fire though very much damaged by water. tion' when on trial "list" April, has. again been called upon to act sa a witness in a murder care. The "Nachtausgabe this evening describes the experiment.
humane race by Draconian legisla | father-in-law and had heard of tion.
Frau Gunthers-Geffers'
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If the motorist drives at a speed likely to endanger public safety ne is to be imprisoned for a term up to one year and fixed from a thou- sand to ten thousand lire, If he causes the death of a person bia sentence can vary from three to eight years' imprisonment. For- merly even fatal accidents were treated as culpable and punished accordingly, but now these offences are punished as though they were reati dolosi (premeditated offences).: If more than one person is killed
or injured the sentence increases in severity; but, with an effort at leniency, the projected legislation (Article 434) establishes that the total sentence of imprisonment can. not exceed fifteen years in the case, of injuries and twenty years in the event of more than one death as a result of the accident,
"It is already asked whether any motorists will be left in Italy if the law goes through without emendation. The President of the Italian Automobile, Club has pro
tested, and hopes are entertained that the Commission of Indairy nominated to examine the pre liminary project of the code would suggest some radical changes. But
moderation does not seem to be the order of the day if we may judge) by the tendency shown to increase the severity of measures against those found driving without
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gift of Captain Matthews and the other second sight, requested her to con-Europeau officers lost every bit of duet an experiment on the site of their personal property, and in the murder.
Captain Matthews' cabin there The "clairvoyante " was taken to was a silver matchbox presented to the house of the murdered man him by H. R. H. Duke of Con- which has remained uninhabited naught All the other officers since the need was committed. She found their cabins in ruins, but was placed in the house alone. Mr. Broad, the wireless operater After some time she opened the managed to save 840 in notes and front door and came out, her eyes his revolver. shut and her bands stretched out in a trance. With her eyes still closed, the found her way along the village street, eagerly followed by
the astonished onlookers."
5.5. “Wing On" As Substitute.
The Wing On has been chartered by the Steamboat Com- pany to take the place of the Sui
Tai and this vessel left Hong
All of a sudden she stopped at Kong on Saturday afternoon on the village inn and, mmmbling some her first trip under this charter. thing, made a movement as it she The a Sui An will maintain her was placing a bicycle against the regular schedule trips to Macao. wall. She then mounted the few Bravery Of The Engine, Room Staff.
teps without hesitation and, always with her eyes closed, walked into the bar and made movements as though she was hastily drinking.
Details are now known of the Chief Engineer Harmon and his bravery and promptness shown by staff. Despite the fact that the fre was spreading throughout the ship After leaving the inn she once mained below drawing fires from with astonishing rapidity they re more went to the spot of the the furnace and opening every imaginery bicycle and made move-cock and valve that would permit steam to escape from the boiler, and, ments with her feet to show that bring down the pressure. sho was riding on it. Without ever It was the poiae made by the having been in the neighbourhoot steam that caused the rumours of
an impending explosion that creat before, she followed a track throughed a mild panic on the prays. But the Felds, sometimes running, some for a very plucky engineering staf the fears would have been justified.
CHINESE FIREMAN SENT TO GAOL FOR STEALING.
times walking.
Damaging." Evidence." After she had covered a distance of almost three miles in three quarters of an hour she arrived at the mill belonging to Paulick, the son-in-law: accused of the murder. The "clair-
voyante" actually walked into Pau- lick's dwelling, but just as she came out again a bell rang and she woke out of the trance.
The experiment, in which the examining judge and a lawyer from Kottbus took part, naturally helped considerably to incriminate Paulick, who had himself requested Fran Günthers-Geffers to come to Buch- holz.
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pleaded guilty before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy on Saturday morning on a charge of theft of 840 in money from the s.s. Sui. Tai on Friday. The de fendant pleaded that he saw the money scattered about on the ship. and added that he had fallen to the sudden temptation.
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licence, or, worse still, driving when a licence has been refused. The Commission suggests confisca tion of the car in these cases, just na a sportsman can now have his gun impounded if he is found shooting without a licence,
At least the pedestrian is pleased by this legislation, and will feel saferi Not altogether;;
for he asks whether any judge will be found to impose some of the sentences. Either he must apply the law to the letter in the event of a fatal side in the latter case the such experiments to help justice. ing the fire on the Sui Tai the de-issued on Saturday, gives the fol- accident, or else discharge the pri-man Press on the danger of making Inspector Clark said that dur- pedestrian. walka in greater peril This case is most likely to renew the of his life under the Rocco Dra: debate, especially as the trail ofed for leave to change his clothes lowing particulars with regard to
fendant approached him and ask- sonian code than under the older the accused man had previously to which were soaked with water. He unclaimed and milder legislation.
be dropped for lack of evidence..
SMUGGLING YARNS,
WOMAN WHO FOOLED 'THE CUSTOMS OFFICIALS.
Stories of drug smuggling on the Thanet coast were referred to by Chief Constable Butler, of Rams gate, after Catherine Lily Ebbett, aged 22, had been found guilty at Sandwich of obtaining money by false pretences.
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When the clairvoyante trial some months ago there was a great deal of discussion in the Ger.
TIGHT COLLAR DANGERS.
SIR W. ARBUTENOT LANE'S
VIEW.
Men's fashions are notoriously conventional, and the rogue of the tight-fitting. collar has continued for years though many doctors have been telling their patients for a long time that it is a menace to health.
Mr. Butler said the woman, un-
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane told der the name of Barbara Durrant, a Daily Mail reporter recently:
collars which are sufficiently tight to control the back-flow of blood
had for some months been fooling. There is considerable riak 10 the Customs officials and giving endless trouble. She supplied pure ly imaginary information of a sub- mersible eraft supposed to enter Pegwell Bay and land quantities of dope, which was supplied to per- song in London.
She also stated that she had been connected with dope runners who were well armed and had head- quarters at Margate, and had been driving about with them in a motor- car. She supplied the number of the supposed car, and it was found to be that of a Dover motor-van.
Asked if Ebbett got anything ont of this, Chief Constable. Butler re and driving about with the Cus plied: Nothing but excitement.
toms officers.'' He added that a number of men were gathered one night in June on her information that dope was to be landed in Pegwell Bay, and that armed men were to be there to receive it..
The recorder remarked thur alte must-have been clever to fool-all these people, "She was placed, on probation for two years.
from the head, especially from the brain, whose texture is very soft and the walls of whose blood- vessels are very thin.
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The defendant's record showed that he had a clean sheet except for one minor case of being absent from his post whilst on duty.
was searched before he was allow
ed to go and the loot was found
in his pockets and shoes.
The Inspector then handed him over to the Police. His Worship was also informed that the C.S.P. wished the case to be made an example to others.
His Worship convicted and een- tenced the fireman to two months' hard labour.
ROASTEL - TOAD - ́AS MEDICINE.
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A General Post Office notification,
HONG KONG,
GENERAL'S LOST CUPS.
TWO MORE ARRESTS.
Two further arrests have been made in connection with the loss of jewellery and other articles valued at £1,300 by Brigadier-General Sir Ormonde Winter,--D.8.0., of Palace Court, Bayswater.
etc., correspondence, waiting at the Post Office, and also unclaimed radio telegrams at the Radio Telegraph Office, Govern ment Building-
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Bernard Mitchell, aged 35, motor
same address, appeared in the dock Ada. Mitchell, 35, married, of the driver, of Harrow-Road, W., and
at Marylebone. They were jointly charged with Alan Graham, former butler to Sir Qrmonde, and Charles Brown-who had been pre- viously arrested-with stealing "be- tween March 15th and July 9th from. Sir Ormonde's house two gold- watches, two diamond pendants, four pearl tie-pine, a silver rose R. H. Beaven, E. Helton, Miss T. bowl, fifteen silver cups (won by Birdwel, V. C. Cavista, C. A. the general in India), ten minis- Combe, J. Convery (s.2. Baron New-tures, ten suite, two swords, and land), J. C. Finch, Kra. P. E. other articles,
Poste Restants Barkest Endence,
Greig, J. Gillian (.. Baron New- Detective-Bergeant Nunn asid lande), W. C. Grikewood (14.1 that when, he searched the Mit- King Stephen), Major A. G. Hills, chells house on a warrant be H. W. Hill (m.v. King Stephen), found a handbag with four-pawn B Haveton (my King Stephen), tickets. The woman said she found Huria Joseph, Kum Kwai Fong, them in drawer. Alter their Miss M. Lewis, Miss M. M. Lefever, arrest he told them that one ticket W. D. McGillivray, Je Mordey, Mr. had been found to refer to a silver. Menache,, G. N. Ogden, Pur Hol Shao, E de Prez, F. L. Rust, H. Rogerson, Mrs. V. P. Raamsdonk, H. F. Blagle, L. E. Sinclair, N. C. Stockwell, Tran Han, Miss Pearl Wecke, J. Waites (m.v. King Stephen), Mr. and Mrs Wright, Mrs. A. Yarrow,
cigar box identified by the general a part of the property stolen by hie butler, The Mitchells made Do reply.
All were remanded, the Mitchells being allowed Bail.
CARDIFF. Strange instances of the per sistent survival of bizarre and purely superstitions medieval folk medicines were related to the British Medical Association confer Any excessive tension in these ence by Dr. E. Roland Williams, thin-walled blood-vessels may of Maenelochog, Pembrokeshire. readily result in the rupture of There was still the fantastic-em- the thin wall of the vessel,ployment of drugs" of animal
Even a minute quantity of origin. Bears grease, once blood excaping into a very im- popular remedy, was not now sorulate), Miss B. Bryan (c/o Con- portant part of the brain can fashionable, but goose grease was sulate), Mrs. Newman Grey, J. Majesty result in instant denth, while a still a favourite for wheezing chests Hund, E. de Pret, G. A Roberts Teck Choop Houg greater destruction of brain cells and sore throats. Spider web was (m. William Penn), L. B. Stiles Sun Fat..... in a less important area may used, too, as a styptio for cute (c/o Repulse Bay Hotel), P. Sloan 5577 produce only a partial paralysis and salt bacon was quite a common
portion of the body.
dressing for boils and whit-lows,
It is quite obvious that any Wise women still existed in
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band which constricts the neck | Wales who advised a ritual in sufficiently to cause stagnation of which some small animal, such as the blood in the veins and their n toad, was incinerated, pulverised, Abdul Hamid, Miss W. Barker," Gangfeul overdistension is a source of great and administered to the patient in L. Crozel, Cheng Ki Man, Col. Shinwayoko danger to the individual.
food or drink. Only a year ago James Christe (Taylor Trading Cheng Hong one of these women, it had been Co.), Op. Fu Wing Lee, Miss Hary F. Fan Tues found, prescribed for a small-boyGram, CJedinetane - Clarence: Vanharby: the mushed ashes of a mouse which Martin (c/a Foreign Cluh), E. Pres had been roasted alive, served to Stockwell, R. Collantes Tacloban. him, with his porridge.
This obstruction; is enormously accentuatar when the Individual beride down to use a golf club, bat, or croquet mallet, or to pick up something from the ground.
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