Monday, Apr. 03, 1933
Jigsaw
Cincinnati police stopped Charles D. Evans. Indianapolis contractor, because he was driving with 1932 license plates, found in the back seat the body of his divorced wife, cut into 14 pieces. Butcher Evans whipped out a razor, cut his throat. Soon Cincinnati newsboys were crying: "All about de Jigsaw Moider!"
Boy
In Cruz Alta, Argentina, Ricardo Pignon, 5, his head filled with tales of kidnappers, heard a tax collector demand money from his grandfather, shot the collector dead.
Rescuer
Entering a Boston courtroom 15 minutes before the trial, Attorney David A. Rose volunteered to defend one-armed Philip Copell, pleaded passionately, listened sadly as his client received a sentence of 2 1/2-to 3 years for robbery. Philip Copell lost his arm 20 years ago when he, 12, pulled David Rose, 6, from the path of a streetcar.
Beauty To International Beauty Shop Owners convening in Manhattan were exhibited these detachable gadgets: colored fingernails which can be shaped & filed; gold-plated nose-shapers, worn inside, to make straight noses saucy; lip covers 1 100,000th of an inch thick; courtplaster tacks to pin back jutting ears; hats with curls of real hair dangling from the back.
House
In the Cincinnati Post appeared this flood-time advertisement: "Lost. 3-ROOM COTTAGE--Painted white, green trimming: from Terrace Park, Sunday morning. Reward. AVon 0050."
Miner
Cried a miner's wife when the teller of a St. Clairsville, Ohio bank told her husband the iron potful of money he offered in payment for a house was $2,000 too much: "John, you got the wrong pot!"
Rats
In Petrzalka, Czechoslovakia, on the complaint of a woman who thought that she had been sold dogmeat, police raided the butcher shop of Josef Lehanec, found hundreds of smoked rats hanging from his hooks, arrested him on a charge of butchering without a license.
Conscience
In Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay was found the body of Charles Lieberman. father of three, missing since Jan. 28 when he fled from the hospital to which he had taken a small boy he had run down in his automobile. The boy had recovered almost immediately.
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