Miscellany, Jun. 27, 1955

This Is Your Life. In Pittsburgh, police arrested James V. Spagnola, reported that he used a sledge hammer, hatchet and shears on the furnishings of his estranged wife's home while she was at work, shut off the gas and cut the power lines and scrawled on the living-room mirror: "This is your home, Doll."

Brief Encounter. In Hampton Court, England, after Neil Dronfield, 8, fell off a bridge into the Thames, followed by Frank Willingdale, who was trying to save him, followed by Mrs. Willingdale, who was trying to save her husband, followed by the four Willingdale children, aged two to seven...

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