Miscellany: Dopes

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In Indianapolis, Ind., three youths pleaded guilty to holding up banks. Said they, Harry Reed, William Stone, George Swift: "We have been in a dance marathon. We didn't know what we were doing. We were wrecks, physically and mentally, and had been doped so long we couldn't sleep. We had been doped for weeks. It was all hazy afterwards."

Executioners

In Ossining, N. Y., after receiving letters from 200 applicants for his job, Robert Elliot, head executioner at Sing Sing Prison, denied that he would retire. Small Thieves

In Manhattan, police found a small hole in the window of a store. Inside the store they found a tiny man, James McCauley, who admitted that with his partner, tiny Leslie Hahr, he had burgled many stores, using entrances and exits impassable to full-sized burglars.

Gallant

"I am five feet four inches tall, weigh 138 pounds and am a blonde." Thus wrote Sally Gallant, of Newcastle, Pa., to Ludvik Ocenasek, Prague inventor, asking him to send her to the moon in a rocket of his invention.

Champ

In Leroy, N. Y., while eating lunch, Charles Drayo read a news item which pronounced Emile A. Gilbert champion egg-eater, he having consumed 36 eggs in eight minutes. Arrogant, Charles Drayo broke 40 eggs into glasses, gobbled them in five minutes.

Pop

In Wickford, England, John Andrew put an electric bulb on the seat of a chair, sat in the chair, died of fright when the bulb exploded with a loud pop.

Fall

In Chicago, Joseph Vrany went home after driving rivets in the top of a skyscraper, fell off a chair, died of wounds.

Target

In South Penobscot, Me., lightning struck a round ball on the steeple of a Baptist Church. When the ball began burning, ten Baptist marksmen shot it off the church with rifles.

Bridge

In Manhattan, Daisy Tunick held thirteen spades in a bridge hand, bid eight spades; the game broke up.

Suicide

In Buffalo, N. Y., when told by his teacher to leave the class for being "unruly," eight-year-old Girard Lyons went into the coat room, hung himself from a coat hook with his necktie.

Toes

In Detroit, Mich., R. V. Wayne, who has befriended some 10,000 stray cats in his lifetime, found that robbers had made off with his Cadillac car and a kitten with 23 toes which was sitting in the back seat. Perturbed, R. V. Wayne offered a reward for the return of the kitten.

Honeycomb

In Adrian, Mich., a queen bee crawled into the honeycomb radiator of Clifford Poll's automobile. Presently a flock of worker bees came after the queen bee, also crawled into the radiator. Clifford Poll pried the queen bee loose with a screw driver, made her fly away. Presently, the workers crawled out of the radiator, buzzed after their queen.'

Dentist

In St. Louis, police found onetime bank president Elwyn Bentley, 60, sitting in his expensive hotel room beside a dental kit, charged by Mildred Rankin with having unnecessarily pulled three teeth out of her head. Arrested for practicing dentistry without a license and for common assault, Elwyn Bentley confessed that he had pulled teeth out of 200 women. Said he: "I guess I get a thrill out of it."

Bells