Son

In Bridgeport, Conn., police charged Harry Goldberger, 35, with being the hit-&-run driver of a motor truck which killed his father, Kalman Goldberger, 70. Father Goldberger, unable to read or write, had charged his sons in Superior Court with inducing him to sign a paper transferring to them his prosperous produce business. The Court ordered the sons to pay him $1,000 at once, $40 monthly for the remainder of his life.

Slump

In Detroit, Negro Robert Harris, member of the Order of Islam (religious society), was arraigned on a first degree murder charge of killing Negro James J. Smith with a knife and automobile axle. Said he: "I killed this man with the crucifixion, because it was crucifixion time. I said 'Ali-ker-slump,' and he fell dead."

Baths

In Johannesburg, South Africa, a Scotch goldminer saved the sediment of his baths for 20 years. When he panned the accumulation from 20 years' baths, he had 20 ounces of pure gold, worth almost $500.

Test

In Marseilles, France, to test his friends, Leon Barat invited them to his funeral, lay stiffly in his coffin while they talked about him. When he rose to thank them for their good opinions, one friend collapsed with heart trouble, died soon afterward. The widow sued Leon Barat for damages.

Jail

In Freehold, N. J., Joseph J. Schwark, new Democratic warden, reported to Harold Height, new Democratic sheriff, on disconcerting conditions in the Monmouth County jail. Of the 90 prisoners, 35 had electric cookers, sauce pans, broilers, cutlery & napery in their cells. They all entertained guests at any hour of day or night, kept late hours, gave parties at whim. Prisoners George Parker, Elijah Thompson, John Leddy, Charles High, John Walling were absent. (Later the night keeper found Parker who "when we counted them in the cells, was in the kitchen. When we counted them in the kitchen, Parker was in his cell. So of course we couldn't count him. He heard we were looking for him, so he introduced himself.") Present were Charles Willis and John Long whose records Warden Schwark could find nowhere. They insisted they had a perfect right to stay in jail. Said Isaac Woolley, old Republican warden. "That new crowd up there at the jail don't know how to read the records."

Tuner

In Amherst township near Buffalo, Police Chief Evans saw William J. Klute, whom he had long wanted on charges of robbery, in a newsreel tuning up one of the late William Wrigley's motorboats. He wired Manhattan police to arrest Tuner Klute, went & got him.

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