BERMUDA: Blazed

Into Bermuda's port of Hamilton one day last week steamed the Monarch of Bermuda, bearing 350 General Electric refrigerator salesmen and other passengers and crew. That night (it was balmy) a member of the crew stealthily entered the home of Mrs. Gustav Pagenstecher. Mrs. Pagenstecher awoke with a scream, cried out that she was being attacked. Her maid heard, dashed to the rescue. The intruder transferred his attentions to her. The maid, quick-witted, seized a hatchet, which by chance Mrs. Pagenstecher had in her bedroom, and with a blow on the head...

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