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  2. BITS OF LIFE

    'JAMES Wood, aged 32, Lowton-street, Radcliffe, was at Manchester Assizes sent to three years' penal servitude for forgery, false pretences, conversion, and ...

    Article : 261 words
  3. MAN AND MANNEQUINS.

    SAID to have asked West End mannequins to parade before him and to have ordered trousseaux at eight different shops, valued at thousands of pounds ...

    Article : 261 words
  4. MAY SPEND LIFE ON SHIP.

    A French lad, Pierre Gaston, who swam ashore from a ship at Langland Bay (Glamorgan), was charged on remand at Swansea with landing in the ...

    Article : 203 words
  5. JUDGE'S "ILL-HUMOUR."

    JUDGE Henry Goodman recently arrived at the New York Traffic Court to answer a summons for leaving his car. unattended in the street. There were is ...

    Article : 142 words
  6. WARNED BY DREAM.

    A Strange story of a warning received in a dream comes from a town on the outskirts of Birmingham. A widow in rather comfortable circumstances had ...

    Article : 191 words
  7. KILLED EXPLAINING ACCIDENT.

    WHILE giving a policeman particulars of an accident, Thomas Lao Searles, aged 40. a carman, of Fcrnhamroad. Thornton Heath (England) was ...

    Article : 133 words
  8. FIGHT FOR A GIRL.

    TWO youths fought a boxing match at A Derry Guildhall (Eng.), with a girl as the prize. Unable to decide by other means who ...

    Article : 89 words
  9. MICE SET HOUSE ON FIRE.

    AN outbreak of fire, believed to have been caused by mice igniting a box of matches in a chest of drawers, caused serious damage to a house occupied by ...

    Article : 82 words
  10. HELD "GHOST" HAND.

    "GHOST" hands that materialised as warm flesh and blood at a London seance are described by Mr. H. Dennis Bradley in a recent issue of "Light," a ...

    Article : 250 words
  11. SUICIDE'S LYING STATEMENTS.

    MR. S. Brighouse, the Coroner, at a St. Helens (Eng.) inquest, refused to read a message left by a suicide which reflected on the living. ...

    Article : 285 words
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    A KNOWING BIRD: This sulphur-created cockatoo lifts tie latea of his cage with bis beaa and announces "Hello, Cocky! I want a drop of water." (Daily Mirror, photo.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  13. LOVERS DIE TOGETHER.

    THE bodies of a boy and girl, clasped in each other's arms and tied together with a silk scarf round their waists, were found in the River Avon, ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. HER SIX HUSBANDS.

    FOUR "husbands" of Kathryn, a quiet but very unprepossessing woman, appeared in a Chicago court recently, and as a result of their testimony the ...

    Article : 145 words
  15. HIT BY A DRAWING ROOM.

    WITHIN a few minutes of arriving at St. Pancras Station in the Manchester express, a passenger walked into a telephone booth. ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. VISIONS OF FIRST WIFE.

    "HE said that he was continually seeing visions of his first wife, andhe felt that he had wronged her," said Miss Glazer, aged 23, in the King's ...

    Article : 198 words
  17. "RESPONSIBLE FOR MY DEATH."

    "I Will not read the names," said Mr. Oswald, the Coroner, at a Hammersmith (Eng.) inquest when he read extracts from a remarkable letter ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. HOT IRON USED ON GIRL.

    JOHN Jones, a miner, was sentenced at Walsall Police Court (England) to three months' hard labour, and Emily Clark, who lived with him, to six months' ...

    Article : 127 words
  19. INVALID GIVES FIRE ALARM.

    OVER a hundred people, most of them in their night attire, hurriedly left their homes in Emba-street, Bermondsey (England) early o-e morning, when a fire ...

    Article : 120 words
  20. ONCE WORTH £250,000

    A Man who 25 years ago was worth £200,000 underwent his public examination in bankruptcy at Birmingham (England) recently. His deficiency was ...

    Article : 85 words
  21. THE "HAT" TRICK.

    The sergeant saw it first—a spectator in the gallery at "Winchester Assizes wearing a hat! He signalled frantically to a policeman ...

    Article : 104 words
  22. A TWO DAYS LESSON.

    A Seventeen-year-old boy, who was accused of exceeding the limit as Oakland. California, U.S.A.. was fined £5 or two days' imprisonment. ...

    Article : 63 words
  23. £800 GIFT IN PARCEL.

    A N elderly woman, dressed in black. called at the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway, England, and asked to see the secretary. ...

    Article : 129 words
  24. THROAT CUT, GOES TO POLICE.

    SITTING in his office at the Flemington police station, Melbourne, Sergeant M. Smith was surprised when a young woman walked in with a towel ...

    Article : 126 words
  25. FIRE BRIGADE GETS DRUNK.

    THE entire fire brigade of the town of Stadthagen, in Schauniburg-Lippe, Germany, has been sentenced to imprisonment for getting drunk at a fire. ...

    Article : 91 words
  26. WOMAN V. BULL.

    THE courage and presence of mind of Mrs. Larwell, wife of the garrison chaplain at Muttra, saved the life of her. four-years-old daughter. ...

    Article : 74 words
  27. HER WAY OUT.

    A 15-years-old schoolgirl of Zonesvills. Ohio., U.S., has defied truant officers to force her to go to school by getting married. ...

    Article : 45 words
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