Amnesia

In Chelsea, Mass., after a fall in the police station, Police Lieutenant Edward J. Forbes lost his memory. He had 15-c- in his pocket. Three days later, when he came to, he found himself in Miami, Fla. with $58 and shiny new luggage.

Jury

In Pueblo, Colo., a jury awarded $5,830 damages to A. H. Ordener from John Dilley for the death of Ordener's son in an automobile-truck accident, awarded Dilley $863.90 from Ordener for truck repairs.

Mischief

In Chicago, Joseph Algori hoisted himself up 30 feet in a painter's scaffold to a newly painted sign of a pretty girl, proceeded to paint on her face a full Vandyck beard. On his return to earth, police arrested him on charges of malicious mischief, disorderly conduct, intoxication.

Man & Wife

In Trenton, N. J., Rocco Favorito & wife, convicted of conspiracy to defraud, declared before the State Supreme Court that as man & wife they were legally one, therefore could not be guilty of conspiracy. The Court ruled that man & wife are legally two.

Feet

In Los Angeles, charged with drunkenness, Glen Quiney took off his shoes, testified: "Sure I stagger and shuffle. You would too if you had feet like mine. Look at those corns and those fallen arches." The jury looked, acquitted him.

Stratagem

In Denver, when Miles Brunswig asked Lucille Stute to marry him, she refused. He went home to Haigler, Neb., put a note in his home-town paper announcing his marriage to another girl. Lucille Stute took a train for Haigler to see what was what, found there was no other girl, married Miles Brunswig.

Telephone

In Manhattan Magistrate's Court, year ago, Nurse Pearl White charged that Nurse Essolene Monnier, off & on since 1930, had been calling her obscene and profane names on the telephone. Magistrate Thomas A. Aurekio found Essolene Monnier guilty. Last week the Court of Appeals reversed him, ruled it impossible to commit a breach of the peace by calling anyone anything whatever, by telephone.

Appeal

In Washington, D. C., attorneys for Mrs. Mabel Jones West of Birmingham, Ala. paid $280 to cover printing and other costs of an appeal to the Supreme Court against a Birmingham ordinance requiring her to have her Pekingese inoculated against rabies.

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