Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1936

Race

In Kewaskum, Wis., 98 villagers marched to the polls to vote for county supervisor, heard that Candidate Emil Backhaus was dead, that Candidate M. W. Rosenheimer had withdrawn from the race. The vote: Emil Backhaus, 64; M. W. Rosenheimer, 34.

Mother

In Los Angeles, proud little old Grace Warren Du Bois, “Last of the Warrens,” self-styled descendant of William the Conqueror, was accused of murdering her son Dr. Charles Warren Du Bois, 32. The shriveled, plainfaced defendant wearily clung to the rail of the witness box, whispered: “My son was always afraid. I’ve never been afraid.” Dully she insisted that a “mysterious young stranger” had killed Charles Du Bois while he sat at breakfast. The State contended that Defendant Du Bois, angry at Charles’s failure to measure up to his ancestry, had bought a .38 calibre revolver, shot him. A jury found Grace Warren Du Bois guilty of murder, sentenced her to life imprisonment.

Sweeper

In Saint Joseph, Mich., when Alfred Zuhl, 11, pedaled too close to a vacuum street sweeper, he and his bicycle were whisked up. sucked into the dust container. Hastily mechanics took the sweeper apart, found the bicycle wrecked, Alfred Zuhl gasping but unhurt. Demanded Alfred Zuhl: “Where’s my cap?”