Swank

Near Crawfordsville, Ind., Lawrence Swank accelerated his automobile, sped up the road, fearing that someone was shooting at him when a missile tore through the hood of his car. The missile: a 2 1/2 in. meteorite.

Pop At Brooklyn, N. Y., Jacob Steinger, 62, was napping in his son's office when a bandit entered, robbed Son Louis, a doctor, of $71. "Watch out, pop!" shouted Son Louis. Father Jacob awoke, jumped on the bandit, sunk his teeth into the bandit's gun hand, received a bullet in his shoulder. The bandit shrieked, dropped his gun. Then Father Jacob shot him in the back.

Offer At Syracuse, N. Y., Mrs. Emma Willis offered to sell her son, 6, for $50,000 because she wants him "to have luxuries and the chance for education that a rich man's son would have."

Trains At Crestwood, N. Y., Eugene C. Tobin, 18, who was intensely proud of being on time for work, ran to catch the 7:41 a.m. train for Manhattan, stumbled on the platform steps, was killed.

In Manhattan, William Johnson, 40, drunk, fell under a subway train, had every button on his coat sliced off, was unhurt.

Repeat

At Rhinebeck, N. Y., near where their son Laurel's car killed two in an automobile accident, Mr. & Mrs. Cassius S. Lawson were killed in their own car.

Cruel

At White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Robert G. Mitchell set out to divorce her husband. Charge: his scheme to sell his two large automobiles and buy a Baby Austin constituted cruelty. Mrs. Mitchell weighs 230 Ib.

Shoes At Ecorse, Mich., Judge John H. Riopelle fined speeders pairs of shoes for 22 shoeless Ecorse children.

Cot

At Elyria, Ohio, Thomas McBride. sentenced on a liquor charge, brought his own cot to jail when he heard that the jail was crowded, that he would have to sleep on the floor.

Moths

At Battle Creek, Mich., Duane Thornton sprinkled gasoline on his overstuffed furniture to kill moths, rushed to the window to escape the fumes, tripped over an electric light cord. A spark from the dislodged socket set fire to the gasoline-soaked furniture, burned up $3,000 worth of furnishings.

Silence

At Yonkers, N. Y., Nellie Kotelez killed her husband with a potato knife because, peeved, he had not spoken to her for five months.

Teeth

Near Atlantic City, N. J., a Pennsylvania R. R. train was nearly wrecked because a farmer had crashed his truck into a railroad trestle, bent the tracks out of line and hurried away too perturbed over the loss of most of his teeth to report the accident.

Squeezer

At Troy, N. Y., Judge James F. Brearton dismissed a $3,000 damage suit against Jess Miner who squeezed Mrs. Margaret Pooler until he broke two of her ribs. Mrs. Pooler admitted she had not told Jess Miner she minded being squeezed.

Forger

In Goldsboro, N. C., Tinker Blackman, who can neither read nor write, was arrested for forging checks on his grandfather, equally illiterate. Forger Blackman secured some one else to witness while he made his grandfather's "mark" on checks.

Appealer

At Cleveland, George Stevens, 35, in gaol for killing his wife, was refused a parole when he appealed on the grounds that it was his first murder.

Paymaster

At Salem, N. J., William McCausland, paymaster of Salem Glass Works, saved the company's $5,000 payroll when three thugs shot him, attempted to wrest the money-pouch away. He fell, rolled upon it. Workmen found him dead.

Dummy

In Chicago, police stopped a suspicious looking automobile after a long chase, found that what they thought was a woman being abducted was only a department store window dummy.

Cinemaddict

At Birmingham, Ala., Gola Martin, Negress, protested to police that her son Sam had sold her $50 false teeth for 10-c- to go to a cinema.

Baby

At Knoxville. Tenn., Mrs. Ruth Jenkins Gate sued for divorce because her baby's first words, "Damn it to hell.'' were caused, she said, by her husband's habitual profanity.

Spool

At Bottineau, N. Dak., a five-month-old baby named Ryan swallowed a spool, breathed through the hole, did not suffocate.

Bus Driver

At Trenton, Thomas J. Hanley, bus driver, did not mind when his wife: 1) hit him with a bottle, 2) kicked him out of bed, 3) ordered him from the house. 4) made him sleep on the floor, 5) accused him of extra-legal loves, 6) spied on him, 7) threatened to poison him, 8) tore his wrist watch off, 9) publicly insulted him. But when she shouted one day: "You're a common bus driver!", he sued for divorce.

Hunter

At Dover, N. H., Maurice Tuttle returned empty-handed from hunting partridge, found his wife had killed and cooked a wounded one which she had found on the roof.

Manhattan

At Manhattan, Alex Fuerstein, taxi driver, objected because he had been arrested for parking in front of a speakeasy. Said he: "But Your Honor, where can I park in this town and not be in front of a speakeasy?" He was fined $2.

Bitten

At Olmuetz, Czechoslovakia, as Leopold Grund stood at the altar waiting to be married, he went mad with hydrophobia from a dog bite of weeks before.

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