Saturday:
WOMAN WITH TINY
ROBS HOUSE
Steals Evening Gown, Furs
A HAND, too small to
be a man's, was thrust through a neatly-cut hole in a window. It unscrewed a safety catch .; and a thief climbed in to steal jewels and furs worth £500 from the home of Mr. W. O. Heyne, com- pany director, of Win- nington-road. Hampstead,
N.W.
Bad
Dreams "Cure"
{[VITCHCRAFT· practised in
some parts of Africa to "curo" bad dreams was' de-: scribed to the Judicial Come mittee of the Privy Council.
The_Committee granted ...à peal submitted on behalf of petition for special leave to ap-
Chief Fakisandhla Nkambule, à The hole in the window be-subordinate chief of Swaziland. trayed the theft recently to a builder's watchman whom Mr. Heyne had asked to watch his house while he went to Herne Bay for Easter.
CLASS WAS OUT
He was sentenced to death by the Special Court of Swaziland for pro- of his curing the murder of one wives, his brother and the wife of his brother,
It was alleged at the trial that he instigated a "medielne man" to nek minister polien to them because he The watchinan telephoned to Mr. suspected them of causing the death Heyne, who motored home.
Mr. Herne sold:
"My hand was much too big to go through the hote in the window. A worm must have done it.
"The putty on the window had been scraped away, and the glass carefully cut.
The
thlet went upstairs and Jemmled open the cupboards and wardrobes in each bedroom."
Among the valuables stolen mink coat, a fox cape, a fox fur, two gold bracelets, gold cuff links, and an evening gown.
Sliver in the dining-room was left! untouched.
Whittington (The Cat) Is Dead
t
DICK WHITTINGTON, the
Mansion House cat that was presented by the Prime Warden
of his daughter.
The chief maintained that he had nothing to do with procuring the murdera,
OVER GRAVES
The "medicine" for which he had asked, he declared, was the perform- ance of the ceremony of "Lüzego" to: cure him of dreams.
This consisted of making a special rope and the placing of it by night, to the accompaniment of Invocations, across the graves of the people whose spirits were believed to be causing the dreams.
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Donkey, Strikes Gold
A
MEXICO CITY.
ROARING camp with all the olden Klondike trimmings grow up like a mushroom when Maria Hernandez, a wrinkled, pipe-smoking prospectress, fell off her donkey in a shallow stream near Sombrerate, an old mining centre in Zacatecas State, Mexico, and got out covered in gold dust.
camp.
In that instance the services of an effelent "medicine man" were ob- Maria's story attracted 5,000 retrieved £10 worth of gold when tained, it was stated, and a rope men, women and children to the she washed her skirt and petticoat. made by him was placed in the preplace at the run, and the strike There are boom-time prices at the scribed manner on the graves of the
Beds in the improvised hotels chief's mother and daughter.
is proving so rich that many cost £1 nightly, bread is 108, a loaf, Mr. Horace Douglas, .c., who ap- women are acooping up with ham and eggs cost 12s. A cup of chief, said he had their hands as much as seven tea or coffee is half a crown, a shave peared for the found that the rope ceremony was practised by the ancient Greeks.
pounds of gold dust daily from 6s, hair-cut 89.
The poorest miner is getting £3 the sparkling yellow sands of
a day. the brook's bank and bottom.
But Maria, who sold her claim for
CCC Honour Youth
Goes Out
LANCASTER, N. H. Milford C. Martin will be 24 years of the Dyers Company, to Siroid on June 15, and herefore will no Harry Twyford, when he was longer be eligible for CCC service. Lord Mayor of London, is dead. He leaves camp with an enviable He was found, recently, battered record, however, never having been to death in the garden of a house late for rollcalls, never absent with- near Sir Harry Twyford's home at dut leave, and never having lost time Copse Hill, Wimbledon, S.W,
through sickness or accident.
a song, is under a doctor's core for drunkenness.
£3 A DAY
Cleveland To See "Mounties"
A girl belonging to a can-can
CLEVELAND, O.-The Royal Can- troupe rushed to entertain the new adian Mounted Police will come here
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terally golden arms and legs She Congress late in July,
160'
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Lorenzo Murias, 12, for whom Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will act as foster parent. He is u Spanish orphan In a refugee camp in France. Mrs. Roosc- velt chose him after viewing many photographs.
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Philips
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Twenty-six people were kill- ed in road accidenta in the county last year, he said. Half of them were pedestrians and pedal crelists,
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