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SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1931.

GUN CHASE ACROSS

NEW YORK,

SHOT MAN DROPS 50 FEET.

New York, Feb. 12.

A runnin gun fight botwean bandits and a policeman electrified the city to-day.

Expressing the opinion in his will that victorious and wealthy England is well able to provide for its soldiers disabled in the late war" Mr. Olway Robinson, a re- Policeman Skelly attempted to While on duty in Brooklyn, tired master mariner, left his rehalt a car containing three mem- nidunry estate of £7,000 "to the hers of a gang responsile for 50 German Government for the time robberies in the district since the being for the benefit of its soldiers New Year. disabled in the late war."

Their response was to fire five Mr. Justice Maugham, in the shots at him, all of which missed, Chancery Division was asked to and then the driver tried to run decide the validity of this bequest. him down. The officer jumped to

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commandeering Car, xave chase' to the

In the event of its being held to} nafety ond. be vold for uncertainty or other- | passing wine, Mr. Robinson made an al-bandits. ternative gift of £1,000 to General There followed a pursuit across Smuts personally and the remain- the eastern boroughs of New York dor to him to apply "at his discre more sensational than any film tlan and in such manner as he may climax yet invented. think fit for the benefit of any disabled Boers who have suffered through the South African War."

The validity of this bequest was also challenged,

Mr. F. Morton, for General Smuts, argued that If the mony went to the German Government by the terms of the will every one of the huge number of German soldiers disabled in the late war would have to receive a portion of it. The German Guvernment was nol given power of spleeting

Mr. Justice Mangham; If the British Government were handed & sum of money, however langs, they could find numerous orgaulan- Fions to assist them tỷ help die¡ alled soldiers

Lead to Another War!

Mr. Morton: If the testator Dad mentioned any German charit- able organisation it might have been difficult to challenge the gift, In the case of Tieneral Snuts titere | In no ambiguity.

Crowded Streela,

Standing on the running board. Skelly Ared shot after shot,as the bandits' car raced at reckless speed through the crowded streets. One

of the bandits was wounded.

At the boundary of Brooklyn their car collided with another and, being thrown out, they madi a dash for a station of New York! elevatod railway, Skelly, class behind, caught one bandit as be was climbing over the bridge, and, in view of 300 terrified passengeri in the truín. àred a shot that seol the gangster crashinx 50 feet to his death in the street below.

A taxleah containing twu Ra- man Catholic priests was passing at that moment, and they din mounted to realer he last rites |to the dying robber,

Pelled with Fist.

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million ve births being 9,601 ngainst 1.288 for legitimate in- fants, while the rates from vio- MORE MARRIAGES BUT BIRTH |lence and neglect at birth were

RATE LOWEST ON RECORD.

6,312 and 98 respectively.

Deaths from cancer numbered

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the second bandit- had sought refuge on the traiu, The Registrar-General's statisti-66,896, the bighest number record- chasing paule among the parseneul Review of England and Wales ed for any one year. gers, who started pouring out of for 1929 discloses many interest-

The birth-rate was 163 or 0.4 it. Skelly. however, cernered hiring and surprising facts.

per 1,000 less than than in 1928, In the motorman's cab, and pre The mortality rate of 134

and was the lowest recorded since sented him from setting the train 1080 of the population was 16 per establishment of civil registra- cent. above that for 1928, and was

tton. "much the highest since mortality rates in England and Wales "is It is stated that the fall in birth iniltenza pandemic." The increase of this country in relation to that

Mr. Morton also argued that the gift to German soldiers was con- trary to public policy, na bequests for that kind might assist Germany melton.

to make another war.

*The policeman

gave him

Mr. Justice Maugham: On the chance to come out without shout-was swollen in 1918 by the great the more serious since the position same principle, aid to a discharged ing, but as the rehber appear is stated, was unusually sudden. of others was already a low one

prisoner might encourage him to comm another crime.

Mr. Crossman (for the Attorney- General) sald the suggestion that a gift to Germany was against public policy was ridiculour,

Mr. Justice Maugham said Mr. Dobinson was a bachelor who had no near relatives except his half- brother.

revolver in hand. Shelly felled| him with a blow of his fist.

The third bandit, who had been wounded managed to escape during the confusion in the station, and hid in a neighbouring cemetery.

After his capture Skelly said hé thought he had done enough for one day.

he

raple to adopt bellicese ideas added. He ordered that the fund should be handed over to the Ger-

"A trust for helping ex-enemy soldiera disabled in the war is more likely to tend towards pence in the future than It is to encourage,nan Reich.

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dults. These adverse conditions the highest since 1921, from which The marriage rate-15.8-was ere responsible for an increase it is "assumed that the burden and i a the Infantile death-rate from 65 responsibility of marriage under n 1928-the lowest recorded-to modern conditions preases no more 4 per 1,000 live births,

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