Roomer

In Brooklyn, John Edmonds walked into the Edwards Hotel clad in his underwear, demanded Room 313. Informed that it was occupied, he said: "It was, but it isn't now. I just fell out of the window.

Wooden Legs

In Lynn, Mass., Warren A. Goldbald was arrested for driving his auto headfirst into another auto while accompanied, in the driver's seat, by three friends. On investigation, Warren A. Goldbald was found to have two wooden legs.

Midget

In Manhattan Kurt Zweibler, a midget, was arrested for driving a small electric automobile without license plates. He squeaked: "I was on my way to get them."

Hunter

In Phoenix, Ariz., Henry Leggett took his new roadster out for a drive, was astonished when two great battling owls burst through the windshield, showering him with fur, glass, feathers. Peering into the back seat he discovered the two owls and a rabbit, dead.

Rabbit

In Canton, Ohio, John Routz, 11, disputed the ownership of a chocolate Easter rabbit with Charles Christeen. After brawling in the street, Master Routz followed Master Christeen to his home, forced open he door, was shot dead by his adversary.

Taste

In the Bronx, N. Y., a jury awarded $22,500 to Mrs. Pauline Goodman, cook, who claimed that her ability to taste had been destroyed in an automobile accident.

Fire

In Edenton, N. C., Aunt Lena Cox summoned the fire department. When the firemen arrived, she pointed to a conflagration in her stove, explained that she wanted company.

Tired

In Evanston, Ill., John Hunton was awakened in his bedroom by a burglar who said, "Keep still or I'll blow your head off."

Tired, John Hunton slept while the burglar ransacked his room. Two hours later, he woke up, reported the robbery to the police, promised to provide further details in the morning when he had had more sleep.

Sister

In Cambridge, Mass., James McArthur, eager to have a sister, stole small Vivian Mercer whom he found asleep outside a doctor's office. After being trundled about in her baby carriage, Vivian Mercer opened her crossed-eyes, stared at James McArthur. Disgusted, James McArthur abandoned Vivian Mercer in a backyard, where her mother found her, weeping.

Mistake

In Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Anna Sahl found William Burkowski-hacking at her front porch with an axe. Rebuked, William Burkowski admitted that he was a housewrecker, that he had mistaken her house for that of a client.

Sport

In Eureka, Calif., Indian Jonas Grant, 19, was arrested for robbing and setting fire to the home of Charles Marsh. Jonas Grant said that he had committed arson in order to awaken the victims of his robbery, so they would be sure to send him to jail. He explained that he had been unable to make the Redwood Creek baseball team, that an ex-convict had told him the San Quentin prison team was one of the best in the state.

In Case

In Wilste, Holstein, Henry Moeller, 15, decided to go to sea, sailed on a clipper ship for Hongkong. His aunt said goodbye to him and presented Henry Moeller with an umbrella of purple silk with a carved snakewood handle. "It will be handy in case it rains," she said.

In 1880, Henry Moeller became captain of the Lackawanna Railroad's river barges. In 1903, he became captain of tugs for the Hamburg-American Line. In 1920, he retired and went to live in Hoboken where he often sat in the back-room of Meyer's Hotel, drinking beer with other old captains. Last week he died. His daughter obeyed his request to place, under the dirty, salt-stiffened pilot coat in which Henry Moeller was buried, the purple silk umbrella which he had carried on all his voyages, short or long.

Vagabond

In Los Angeles, Calif., eight years ago, detectives found Walburga Oesterreich in a closet opening into the room in which her husband, Fred Oesterreich, apron manufacturer, lay murdered. Because the door of the closet was locked from the outside, she was never tried for murder.

Last week one Herman Shapiro told police that a Walter Klein had confessed to the murder of Fred Oesterreich, caused Klein to be arrested. Police-headquarters announced the results of an investigation. They said that Mrs. Oesterreich had become friendly with Walter Klein 18 years ago, had described him as her "vagabond half-brother." While the Oesterreichs lived in Milwaukee, Walter Klein inhabited a secret room in their house, unknown to Fred Oesterreich. When they moved to Los Angeles, another secret room, like the first, was constructed for Walburga Oesterreich's vagabond halfbrother. Herman Shapiro said that Klein had admitted overhearing a quarrel between the Oester-reichs, creeping out of his secret room, shooting Fred Oesterreich, pushing Walburga Oesterreich into a closet, locking the door from the outside.

Investigating the houses in which the Oesterreichs had lived in Milwaukee and Los Angeles, police found a secret room in each, shrewdly fitted under the eaves in the attic.

*Not to be confused with William ("Billy Burke") Burkowski, famed golf professional.

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