CRIME: Rough Week

Crime, as reported here & there in the U.S.:

¶ During a night of drinking in Little Falls, N.J., grey-haired Mrs. Geneva Humphrey decided that her middle-aged husband was taking up with another woman. At 3 a.m., lacking any other weapon, she chased him down the street with the family automobile. Husband Hugh Humphrey, a butler by trade, dodged nimbly into a driveway, discovered too late it was a dead end. His wife drove in after him and squashed him to death between the bumper and a cellar door.

¶ In a Chicago apartment, Mrs. Marian Caldwell dug carefully into a...

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