Monday, Feb. 01, 1937
Odzinski In Chicago's St. Stanislaus Church, Anthony Odzinski, 53, confessed his sins to Priest Henry Jasinski, then climbed to the fourth floor of an adjoining building, jumped to his death. Priest Jasinski administered last rites.
Trap In Manhattan, Hatcheck Girl Katherine Steyer, 32, was electrocuted in her apartment by charged wires strung through the draperies. The wires had been arranged as a burglar trap.
Bill In Austin, a bill was introduced in the Texas Senate to prohibit newspapers from "displaying women's naked legs." Author of the bill was State Senator Olan R. Van Zandt, a blind man.
Prowler In North Andover, Mass., awakened by noises at his bedroom window, Salvatore Lamonica, 80, grabbed his gun, fired two shots in the dark at a prowler. Next morning he found his son Paul dead beneath the window.
Shackmans In Cleveland, Motorcycle Patrolman Carl Bare arrested Sam Shackman for driving with only one license plate, had him jailed. Soon as he had finished with this case, Patrolman Bare spotted the other plate on Brother Ben Shackman's automobile, nabbed him, too, as he was on his way to get Brother Sam out of jail.
Delay In Denver, Colo., a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad train arrived four hours late because the train repeatedly stopped for no apparent reason. Investigation disclosed that an elephant in the baggage car had spent the trip pulling the airbrake rope with its trunk.
Tamer In Buffalo, N. Y., on his day off Lion Tamer John Taylor, 66, was picked up by Patrolman Howard Leininger who reported that he was "drunk and nasty and ferocious and snarled." Tamer Taylor confessed that when he got drunk he couldn't feed the lions because he wasn't "quick enough." Said the judge: "You'd better . . . take to feeding rabbits." Blast In Fairview, 111., a keg of wet blasting powder was lugged into the house of Albert Taylor, 61, to dry beside a stove. As Taylor sat down to dinner with his wife and eight children, the powder exploded, razed the house, killed three.
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