GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
A DESPERATE OLD CRIMINAL
(.United press association -copyright, j (Received Jan. 16, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 15. Charles Arthur has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. He was sentenced in 1902 to ten years’ imprisonment for shooting at three constables at Spitalfields. ■ [Arthur was detected committing a burglary in a public house on December 27. A constable chased him and arrested him. Arthur fired four shots at close range, but all of them missed.]
OBITUARY. (Received Jan. IG, 12.50 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 15. The death of Lord Swaythling is announced. [Samuel Montagu, first Baron Swaytilling, created 1907, was born at Liverpool in 1832, and was head of the banking firm of Samuel Montagu and Co., London, and was M.P. for Whitechapel from 1885 to 1900.] ROBBERY AND MURDER BY TERRORISTS. (Received Jan. 16, 1.30 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 15. A gang of terrorists killed two railway officials at Warsaw and robbed the passengers on the platform, and also two pedestrians in the street, and escaped after killing one of the latter. PLAGUE HORRORS AT HARBIN. 1135 Chinese and 64 foreigners have died of plague at Harbin. Many Chinese corpses, half devoured by dogs, were thrown into the Amur.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3119, 16 January 1911, Page 5
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202GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3119, 16 January 1911, Page 5
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