"TIME brings all things."
Iceman
In Olathe, Kan., Probate Judge George W. Fulmer, a 60-year-old official with one arm, married Elizabeth Conn, the 16-year-old daughter of an iceman, to one William Washburn, 21. This done, E. A. Conn, local iceman and father to Elizabeth, swirled into Probate Fulmer's office and beat the smiling, crippled, bewildered old fellow within an inch of his life.
Busman
Nearing Portales, Mexico, last week, the passengers in a bus became frightened. They were on a straight road but the driver of the bus was making it go faster and faster so that it lurched across the highway. The passengers called to the driver; he paid no attention to their cries, but leaned lazily back driving with one hand, reckless and grinning. At last one of the passengers jumped into the seat beside him, pulled the emergency brake, stopped the bus and abused the driver who had been dead for about three minutes.
Crazyman
In Fairplay, Col., Anna Deeler, 58, decided that her 34-year-old son, Harry Deeler, a horse-thief and released convict, was crazy. Afraid that he would be taken away to an asylum, she coaxed him into a dark room at the back of her shanty where she chained him to a post. That was eleven years ago. Last week policemen found Harry Deeler crouching in the dark room; they wrapped him in a blanket and took him away to an asylum.
Blackman
Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad.
He put the tie across the tracks near a curve and then went into the bushes to wait. A few minutes before the express arrived, a freight train came puffing up to the obstruction and its engineer got out of his cab and pushed the tie down into the bushes. Matt Fisher was about to put it back where he wanted it when some trainmen who had heard his dog barking, found him sitting in the shrubbery. They asked him what he was doing and Matt Fisher, sucking on a cigaret, told them.
Eleven Chinese
To a ranch near Fairfield, Calif., one Leung Ling or Loy Yeung, a Chinese cook, paid a visit. On his arrival, he took a rifle and a hatchet and killed one Wong Gee, Mrs. Wong Gee and three Wong Gee children. This done, he slaughtered Wong Hueng, whose brother owned the ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked one small girl.
Shrewd
Unique was the profession of a Polish woman which met its abrupt end last week. At a marriage ceremony in Grodno, North Poland, a priest asked his oft-repeated routine question, added "Let him speak now or forever hold his peace." A woman spoke, "The groom is not a man," she said. Investigation followed. The groom explained that it was her custom to dress as a man, marry wealthy women, get their money.
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