Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1941

Tickle Tiff. Near Mason City, Iowa, a woman killed her husband because he tickled her.

Travel. In The Bronx an eleven-year-old boy returned home from ten-mile-distant Teaneck, N.J., where he said he had walked in his sleep, wakened in a tangle of fishing tackle in a parked car. In Memphis an eleven-year-old runaway from St. Louis, 300 miles away, appeared at his girl friend's home for a date. He brought her a doll. In Camden, N.J., police obeyed the instructions of a twelve-year-old Kansas City runaway's parents who refused to send him the fare home: they released him, told him to hike...

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