Miscellany: Fingers

In Detroit, a policeman arrested Peter De Peter on suspicion, but could not determine what there was queer about him. At police headquarters Peter De Peter was fingerprinted; amazed policemen saw he had on each hand five fingers & a thumb, promptly released him. Peter De Peter said his father was ten-fingered and twelve-toed, and so was his son, 15, until he had the extra fingers cut off. He works his ten fingers nimbly at the Hudson Motor Car Co. plant.

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