Miscellany: Swill

At Buffalo Mary Kascmarek, 2, was placed by some older children in a cardboard packing-case near the curb. Along came the garbage-wagon; the garbageman hoisted case, Mary Kascmarek & all, into the peccant swill. When the wind blew back his wagon tarpaulin, the garbageman discovered Mary Kascmarek, wiped her off, took her home.

Ways & Means

At Baltimore Bertram R. Yeatman planned to divorce his wife and marry a Mrs. Sophie Lowery. One morning Mrs. Sophie Lowery told him she was already married. Nevertheless she promised to meet him on a street-corner later in the day to discuss ways & means. Bertram R. Yeatman kept the appointment, waited on the street-corner for five hours. When Mrs. Sophie Lowery at last came, he shot her dead.

Taxi

At South Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Ida Barrett Wheaton, 55, relict of a War veteran whom she met by mail, heard that her new War-veteran-correspondence fiance, one Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: “Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!” At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare: $400.

Behind

In Manhattan Theodore Reinhardt was bending over some toys in his sixth-floor shop when an arrow came flying through the window, pierced him painfully behind. Police went hunting for the toxophilite who pierced Theodore Reinhardt.

Ear

At Norfolk, N. Y. one Harold Green bent down to change a tire on his automobile when an arrow pierced his left ear. It had been shot by an unidentified girl archer.*

Love

At Pittsburgh William Creco, 25, was kissing Mrs. Margaret Fritz, 28, goodnight when suddenly he bit off the end of her nose. Arrested, he said: “I love her.”

Love

In Pittsburgh, police found Genevieve Monarch Miller in a car with three men, her arm bloody with the letters ED MILLER, carved into the flesh by a penknife. Arrested, forced into a hospital, Mrs. Miller explained that she had allowed her husband to carve her. “I love him,” said Genevieve Monarch Miller.

—For the improvement of toxophilites a book by Phillip -Rounsevelle, published by Barnes, called Archery Simplified, last week appeared in the bookstalls.