Miscellany: Clerk

Clerks

In Newark, N. J., a sporting goods clerk showed a customer a hunting rifle, watched him load the gun. The customer pointed the weapon at the clerk, demanded money, got $75.

Hogg

In Spring Lake, N. J., James Hogg, vermin exterminator, was arrested for reckless driving by Chief Elwood Lutz, fined by Justice of the Peace John H. Young. Exterminator Hogg telephoned Justice Young, inquired whether he had any bedbugs, received a negative answer. Said James Hogg: "Well, you will have." When Justice Young went home he...

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