Vigilante. In Columbus, Ohio, when Harry Hilton, 34, called to complain that two police cruisers were wasting their time "loitering" in his neighborhood, suspicious police looked up his name, sent one of the cruisers to arrest him on an old armed-robbery warrant.
Psychosomatic. In Hamilton, Ont., Alfred Henderson, visiting his wife as she was about to undergo an appendectomy, complained of feeling ill, was examined by doctors, had his own appendix removed 30 minutes after his wife's.
Front. In San Francisco, gambling-joint proprietors asked raiding police to pull their patrol wagons to the sides...
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