Honest Feit

"TIME brings all things"

Slender, getting bald; a wart on the left side of the nose. Protruding ears, sallow coloring. That is Isaac Shapiro, famed swindler, seven times convicted thief, now at large. That is also William Feit, honest salesman. Arraigned, Salesman Feit stood in court. Bondsmen, victims, detectives, policemen, identified him as Swindler Shapiro. He said he was innocent. Even his lawyer did not believe him. He faced life sentence. Honest Feit looked evilly around the court, whispered something to his lawyer, one Emmanuel Celler. Lawyer Celler, realizing that his client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand, asked him, for the sake of form, to identify Mr. Shapiro's fingerprints with Mr. Feit's. "Positively not the same," said the expert. The Judge ordered an acquittal. In the mind of the jurymen, the judges, the clerk, the counsel might have been the belief that this man, an arch criminal, had found a way to change the markings on the pads of his fingers. Honest Feit smiled, wrinkling the skin around his wart. He walked away a free man.

Inevitable Mode

In Belgrade, last week, Mme. Gisela Tiv, wife of a wealthy Jugoslavian merchant, 33, tall, stately, handsome, mother of two children, drove up to the Grand Hotel and descended from her carriage at the door of its fashionable restaurant, unclothed.

Entering the hotel she walked unconcernedly to her favorite table, ordered tea. Since many of the guests were discourteous enough to stare, Mme. Tiv raised her lorgnette and swept them with a reproving glance. Soon a policeman entered, stripped off his overcoat, clothed Mme. Tiv in it and escorted her protesting to a police station. There she was examined by an alienist who pronounced her entirely sane.

Said she when sentenced to two days' imprisonment: "Within a, few years no fashionable woman will wear clothes in public. I merely wished to be the first woman in Jugoslavia to adopt the inevitable mode."

Twinsult

In Paris, last Week, one Gaston Goethe, redoubtable postcard peddling Alsace-Lorrainer, was jailed for assulting simultaneously a German who had called him a Frenchman and a Frenchman who had called him a German.