Miscellany: Dec. 1, 1930

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In Athens, Greece, Peter Kulaxides, about to take to himself his eighth bride, was arrested & charged with having done to death the preceding seven. He explained: Wife No. 1 died of excitement & joy when he was released from jail after a long incarceration. The next five he did not kill. Wife No. 7 he murdered because she had told him lies.

Seconds

In Jacksonville, Fla., Moody Gibbs and Allen Posey, blackamoors, decided to settle with fisticuffs a dispute over a woman. They . appointed two seconds: Marion...

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