Price

In Buffalo, though separated from his wife for three years, Daniel Petrelli each week purchased a kiss for $1. Last week she raised the price to $5. Daniel Petrelli got mad, was arrested for assault.

Anachronism

In Hatch, N. Mex., a cowboy rode up to the First National Bank, hitched his horse, robbed the bank of $2,000, galloped off across the desert amid crackling pistol fire from the outraged citizenry.

Giddap

In Evanston, Ill., Tommy Randolph, 3, halted before a team of horses, shrilled "Giddap." Obedient, the horses clumped right over small Tommy Randolph, pulled the wagon across his trampled body.

Scold

In Abington, Pa., Browder Benningfield charged that Catherine Cairns "had destroyed the peace of the neighborhood ... and that verbal attacks from her had made life miserable for the residents. Her actions made life miserable during the night as well as during the day. for she did not cease even when darkness came." Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk.

Nun

The Dominican nuns of Konstanz, Germany, sent Sister Gertrude Endres to the U. S. to paint Niagara Falls. For seven months she has been turning out oil paintings showing Niagara Falls from assorted angles. Last week in Manhattan's Central Park she lost 20 of them.

Angry

In Coney Island, N. Y., an inquiring reporter of Manhattan's tabloid Sunday News received platitudinous replies to his question, "Have you ever known a person with a broken heart who failed to recover?" until he queried angry, baldheaded, bejowled J. J. Healey, doorman. Said he: "Yes, myself. Years ago a woman broke my heart and ran away. I got a job in front of this museum, knowing that some day she will pass this door, and when she does, I'm going to break her jaw!"

Forenoon

In Oshkosh, Leonard Tritt killed his wife after breakfast, ate his lunch in Wisconsin's State Prison, sentenced for life.

Host

In Philadelphia, because the liquor ran out at a party, John Cupo boasted that he would willingly drink grain alcohol neat. Host John Boccalupo gave his guest a tumbler of alcohol. Gulping it down, John Cupo gasped, gagged, sputtered and finally spewed it out on the floor. Shaking with laughter Host Boccalupo tossed a lighted match at John Cupo, who burst into flames, was severely burned.

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