Note

In Manhattan, Beatrice Pickens, 23, committed suicide, left the following note for Roger Spencer: "Don't get a swelled head and think you are a god because I am dying on account of you, because I assure you that you will never, never find anyone that cared for you as I did. . . . I have a perfect radio voice. Also I have an offer to pose for hosiery and lingerie, so you see I am not such a worthless creature. Everyone says I am a fool for loving a little insignificant elevator boy, but it just happens that you are a god of my universe."

Ugly

In Alengon, France, Pierre Berthelot and wife starved their three-months-old baby to death, explained that "he was too ugly. We just couldn't stand to look at him."

Firewater

In Eastview, N. Y. Keeper Arthur W. Trevitt of the Westchester County penitentiary traced the smell of liquor to the main cell block, found five gallons of homemade liquor fermenting in a fire extinguisher.

Cow

In Monmouth, Ill. a cow sat on John P. Collins, smothered him to death.

Bridegroom

In Chicago police arrested Bror H. Petersen, petty swindler, who had married four wives in one month by giving them $500 promissory notes, telling them that he had inherited an ancestral estate in Sweden on condition that he bring back a wife. Said Bror H. Petersen: "I married those girls looking for the right one and decided pretty quick that I didn't want to take Madeline or Loretta or Mabel back with me to the ancestral estates. But Lydia! Ah, there's the girl."

Alive

In Utica. N. Y. Anna Mullen was shot twice through the brain, lived.

Thief

In Albuquerque, N. Mex. a thief broke into the house of George Martin, stole a jacket, a mattress, a sheepskin coat, a pair of overalls. Next day he brought them back, left a note: "Too bik. No use "em."

Defense

In Windsor, Ont. Arthur Ryan pleaded not guilty to killing his neighbor's rooster, asserted that the rooster had committed suicide by cutting its head off with a spade.

Reward

In Tallahassee, Fla. Gerald 0. Steele, convict, serving 15 years on the chain gang, was informed that his sentence had been reduced to five years because he had written to the Pardon Board and Governor Dave Sholtz praising the chain gang system.

Prince

In the University of South Dakota Yukithi Yoshida, student, who appears daily on the campus as a Japanese prince in uniform and sword, was made the victim of a practical joke. In princely rage Yukithi Yoshida drew a pistol, shot the jokester through the hand.

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