Escape

In Eastview, N. Y., Oscar Williams, 253-lb. chicken thief, escaped from jail, was recaptured four days later waddling along a road ten miles from the jail. Oscar Williams stated that he had been traveling by night, sleeping by day, thought he had covered "at least 100 miles."

Ride

In Chicago, George Richardson, taxidriver, was compelled by a robber to visit a succession of filling stations, at each one of which his fare committed a holdup. After several holdups, the robber said: ''When we get through, I'm going to kill you." Terrified, George Richardson wrote a note saying, "I am taking myself for a ride. We're headed for Indiana Point. Help, Help," dropped it on the road. A farmer found the note, telephoned a sheriff, who rescued George Richardson.

Prowler

In Manhattan, Commissioner of Correction Richard C. Patterson Jr. while inspecting a jail, was asked by the keeper what charge had brought him in. "Prowling," answered Commissioner Patterson. ''Get in there," said the keeper, locked Commissioner Patterson in a cell where he stayed for half an hour.

Senator

Near Newport, Fla., W. J. Singletary, Florida State Senator, set out to warn two brothers Sauls that they could cut no more timber on his land. The Sauls answered with gunshots. Senator Singletary was taken to a hospital with both eyes shot out, bullet wounds in his back.

Beverage

In Atlanta, Annie Marina, 60-year-old Negress, guilty of drunkenness, admitted she had been drinking a beverage made by dissolving mothballs in gasoline.

Dime

In Chicago, surgeons saved the life of Wynan King, a sword swallower who had swallowed a dime.

Nuisance

In Cambridge, Mass, a crowd gathered to watch a man who, while washing windows on the ninth floor, was dancing a jig. Arrested for being a nuisance, the window washer, one James O'Reilly, asserted that he could also eat razor blades or glass, chewed and swallowed an electric light bulb to prove it.

Water-Baby

At Manhattan, Joseph Stencel, aged 17 months, crawled from his crib, peered into a pail of water, tumbled in, was retrieved half-drowned by Mother Stencel.

Service

In Manhattan, when Fred Roth put three nickels in succession into a pay-station telephone and got no response, Fred Roth ran amok, ripped out the door of the booth, punched a policeman's nose, landed in jail.

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