Monday, Mar. 06, 1933
"TIME brings all things."
Accident
In Montreal. Andrew Gibson, 21, accidentally shot his half-sister Jean Kelly, 16, in the neck, "hated to see her kicking,'' cut her throat with a safety razor blade, killed himself.
Nuisances
In Olean, N. Y,. a bomb wrecked the home of David F. Stoner, father of eight whom threatening letters had called nuisances.
Refined
In Oklahoma City, Tileta Beaty sued for divorce from her husband on the grounds that his "fussing & nagging" were spoiling her "refined temperament."
Bargees
In Jersey City, Arthur Rugar, 52, captain of Lehigh Valley Barge No. 17, last year took his wife Hannah, 49, to George Bullock, captain of Lehigh Valley Barge No. 313, to get hypnotic treatments for nearsightedness and adiposity. Mrs. Rugar soon threw away her glasses, lost 30 Ib. Last week when she started for Captain Bullock's barge for more treatments, her husband shot her in the shoulder.
Guide
Frank Lasky, 29, driving his car for the first time in Manhattan, picked up Gus Rojinsky, 36, to guide him to the tunnel back to New Jersey. They missed the tunnel, raced past a red light into a dead-end street, shot over a low bulkhead into the Hudson River. Guide Rojinsky drowned.
Cook
In Springfield, Mo., Clifford Matthews was granted a divorce on the grounds that his wife nagged him about his cooking.
Threesome
In London, Alex Moore of the British Board of Ballroom Dancing introduced "threesome dancing" to cheap dance halls: two women standing one behind the other face a man who dances with them as one.
Camel
In Manhattan, the Central Park Zoo named its newborn camel "Oh, Boy! Repeal!"
Fingerprints
In Manhattan, in 1909 Robert Burns, 16, stole a horse, was caught and fingerprinted, one of Manhattan's first. Police had no use for the fingerprints until last week when he was found in a gutter, shot and stabbed in the abdomen, died without recovering consciousness.
Once
In Manhattan, Frederick Krantz, 43, waiter, dined handsomely in the Hotel Commodore's main dining room, snapped about the service, paid his check and drained a bottle of iodine. Revived and recovering, he said, "I wanted to dine out once as a big shot. . . . I'm tired of living."
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