Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1936

Haste

In Atlanta, Ga., Negro Willie Boston shuffled into a municipal hospital with a two-hour-old baby in her arms, demanded to know if it was "all right." Assured it was, she admitted she was the babe's mother, trudged off with it to resume her housework.

Trapper

In San Francisco, Hyman Gorwitz, father of eight, irked when neighborhood moppets overran his backyard, buried heavy steel wolftraps there, baited them with counterfeit dimes. Before Trapper Gorwitz could catch anything, adult neighbors scaled his fence, dug up two of his traps, had him jailed for would-be assault...

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