Find

In Reserve. Kans., Wilbur Peck exhibited a pelt to prove his story that he had found two wolves fighting in front of his house "presumably to be first in line at the door."

Complaint

In Manhattan, Dominick Roba complained to police that when two men entered his candy store and held him up,. his police dog promptly bit him, enabling the bandits to escape.

Stride

In Langley, S. C., during a fervent campaign speech for the post of county superintendent, Louis Togneri absentmindedly strode right off the platform into the crowd, broke a leg.

Forehanded

In Fort Bragg. Calif., nobody believed that forehanded Abe Triplett was going to kill himself when he picked a spot under a big tree, permitted himself to be photographed digging his grave (see cut ). Nobody believed it when he went home, built himself a coffin. Two days later Fort Bragg found it was wrong.

Mistake

In Manhattan, Mary Jane Swank, 18, who performs with her twin sister Jean in a dance team, sued Harry Brown Cook III, 21, for divorce. She complained that since he moved in to live with the Swanks, "on more than one occasion Mr. Cook made a mistake as to the identity of his wife, thereby causing resentment."

Pattern

In Manhattan, police arrested Joseph Fox, 46, alias Joseph Wolf, Harry Gross, Harry Solomon, for picking a bus passenger's pocket. In court it was revealed that since 1904 he had been arrested 75 times in 14 cities--mostly on pickpocket charges--and convicted 26 times. Explained Pickpocket Fox: "Everybody has his own pattern cut out for him. This seems to be mine."

Recovery

In Evansville, Ind., Mrs. John Benham suspected that her dog Jerry had eaten up two $5 bills. By feeding Jerry liberal amounts of castor oil she retrieved the bills in fragments, patched them together, forwarded them to the U. S. Treasury at Washington for redemption.

Diamond

In Seattle, Wash., Mrs. William Morgan had a $100 diamond pecked from her ring while she was feeding her poultry. In hopes of recovering it, the Morgan family cooked and carefully chewed a chicken a day for 18 days. The diamond was finally found in a rooster's gizzard.

Rooster

In Chicago, after pecking June Tracy, 2. a rooster was interned for 40 days at the City Health department for examination for rabies.

Evidence

In Gardner, Kans., Mrs. Harry Eyerly reported the theft of four chickens, one of which "always lays a double-yolked egg." Soon afterwards Sheriff Emmett Pitt stopped James Burtis at Olathe with eight hens in his automobile, arrested him when he found a double-yolked egg on the back seat.

Tired

In Huntsville, Tex., tiring of working at the Harlem Prison Farm, William H. Shoemake. 19, serving a two-year sentence for theft, paid another convict $5 to chop off his right foot with an ax.

Push

In Memphis, Tenn., Golfer Harvey Thompson solemnly related that after his putt had stopped on the cup's lip, his ball tumbled in when a big fly landed on it.

Dare

In Wranowitz, Czechoslovakia, Anton Smula bet drinking companions that he dared enter a cemetery, filch a wreath from a new grave. Next morning Anton Smula was found dead in the cemetery, his coat caught in a picket fence.

Sale

Dakota City, S. Dak., once a bustling mining town was sold with its abandoned shops, homes and schools to Pennington County Treasurer John Thompson for $25.

Suit

In Chicago, injured last July when Morris Hurwitz's automobile suffered a blowout, pitched into a ditch near Lincoln. Ill., Mrs. Minnie P. Hurwitz sued her husband for $3,000 damages on the grounds that he had repeatedly disregarded her orders from the back seat to drive more slowly.

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