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  2. BITS OF LIFE

    SIXTEEN wives in five months is the record of which Frank Wills boasted in court at Bridgeport (Connecticut, U.S.A.), when arraigned as a fugitive from ...

    Article : 213 words
  3. THREE SIXPENCES AND THE LAW.

    A Unique summons concerning a woman's discovery of three sixpences in a motor bus was heard at Tower Bridge Police Court, England, recently. ...

    Article : 243 words
  4. UNIDENTIFIED 61 TIMES.

    THE defence that he was a patient in hospital when forgeries of which he was accused were carried out was made at the Old Bailey, London, recently, by Luke ...

    Article : 106 words
  5. TICKLED GIRL IN CHURCH.

    A Scene in a church was described at Braintree Police Court, England, recently, when Frederick Overall, a young farm labourer, of Black Notley, was ...

    Article : 117 words
  6. SILENT BUGLE OF BROADWAY.

    AN unusual figure in the Broadway throng that mills daily about Times Square, New York, is that of an old scissor-grinder with a wheel almost as aged ...

    Article : 195 words
  7. HANDCUFFS THROWN AT BENCH.

    A Moslem prisoner at Bombay, sentenced to a further term of nine months for a breach of gaol discipline, to-day slipped his handcuffs and hurled them at ...

    Article : 57 words
  8. THROWN TO DEATH.

    A FOUR-year-old girl, still clasping her doll in her arms, was thrown out of the sixth storey window of an apartment house in Brooklyn (U.S.A.) by a woman. ...

    Article : 44 words
  9. The Iceberg.

    Fresh critic[?]m has been made of the discourteous and aloof manner in which counter officials at Australia House in London treat people seeking Information about the Commonwealth. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  10. BACK FROM DEATH.

    THE astonishing case of a dead man who was brought back to life twice by heart massage was disclosed at a Lambeth (Eng.) inquest recently on Mr. William ...

    Article : 209 words
  11. TRIPETS AGED 70.

    TRIPETS born at Cracoe, near Skipton, England, have celebrated their 70th birthday. They are Mrs. Charles Thackeray, of Bispham, near Blackpool, Mrs. ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. SURGEON'S OPERATION FEAR.

    THAT, although a surgeon, he had a rooted objection to any sort of operation, was disclosed at the inquest held recently on Dr. George Symonds of ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. CONVICTS CODE OF HONOUR.

    A N escaped convict who sacrificed his liberty rather than allow his companion to be taken back to Parkhurst alone, came before the Isle of Wight ...

    Article : 178 words
  14. "A DESPICABLE THEFT."

    "IT was a mean and despicable theft," said the chairman at the Kingston (Eng.) Police Court, in passing sentence of three months' imprisonment on Doris ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. PLAN DRAWING SOBRIETY TEST.

    ARRESTED and nccused of being drunk in charge of a car, a London builder was asked by the police to answer the following questions as a test of his ...

    Article : 132 words
  16. PASSENGERS FIRST.

    THIRTY people jumped to safety from a buring 'bus travelling between Selby and Leeds, England, late one Sunday night. ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. WITH TWO DEAD MEN.

    AFTER being alone with two dead comrades for 36 hours in a frail curragh, or canoe, off the coast of Connemara, Co. Galway. Iceland, Myles Joyce, ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. CONVICT'S LIBEL SUIT.

    AFTER a blameless life of 51 years in Charlestown convict prison (U.S.A.) where he is serving a life term for murder, Jesse Pomeroy has started an action ...

    Article : 136 words
  19. WIFES RIGHT TO A HOME.

    CAN a husband force his wife to live with her mother-in-law? A Paris court decided that he cannot, and that he is not entitled to a divorce if his wife leaves ...

    Article : 140 words
  20. SUFFOCATED BY A CAT.

    THE habit of allowing animals to sleep on beds was condemned by Dr. Bronte at a Hammersmith (Eng.) inquest on a 13-days-old baby. ...

    Article : 98 words
  21. UNIQUE CABMAN.

    "TIPS respectfully declined." A London man, hurrying to his office in a taxicab found this notice, neatly printed, posted alongside the fare schedule. ...

    Article : 114 words
  22. LOUD SPEAKER "HELL."

    COMPLAINTS of a wireless loud speaker and a gramophone in Hackney Hospital, England, were made at an inquest at Hackney on Willie Cole (71), of ...

    Article : 102 words
  23. GRATITUDE TO BUTLER.

    THE late Mr. H. K. Bibby, the shipowner, of Hyde Park-street, London, in his will just published, in which he left £182,364, with net personalty £178,295, ...

    Article : 125 words
  24. VOLUNTARY EXILE FOR A YEAR.

    Astaff nurse of Darlington Smallpox Hospital (Eng.). Miss Jones, had been in voluntary isolation for a whole year. She offered to undertake the usual short ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. AS THE OLD YEAR WENT.

    GOING on to the balcony of her home to see the Old Year out and the New Year in, Mrs. Harriet Frazer, aged 10, of Finborough-road. South Kensington, ...

    Article : 108 words
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