Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-20

detect perjury Long experience upol
the bench has taught him that from III,
class of prisoners brought before him il
Is dlihcult 10 obtain trustworthy teSt
m0ny. Searching for a cure for thi,
evil, he began TO experiment with light
An electric hight. with n strong reflect
or, was brought into use. and as the DO.
lice prisoners are brought To the wines,
stand he turns on the impromptu search.
ught- It's strolg rays enable the Judge
sitting in the shadow, To follow every in.
Clai expression of the offenders and il is
found that perjury has been greatly re-
duCed.
The judge. who is student of crimi-
nology, reads the faces of his visitors
and. IN way, their thoughts, and upon
the appearance of an effort to escape the
consequences of the truth he promptly
checks them.
IL. W. Parks, New Orleans. La, con
tractor, stated that his fox terrier. Joe"
which jumped from train at Fulton.
| NY. while Mrs. Parks was on the way
to visit relatives at Creel Springs, ILL.,.
had turned up at Creel Springs. Mrs.
Parks left the dog in charge of a bag
gageman. The terrier chewed the rope
and leaped from the train at Fulton. The
Illinois Central railroad was asked 10
telegraph operators along the line to look
out for the dog, but it was not found.
W hlle Mrs. Parks was walking on road
near Creel Springs the dog suddenly
spraug upon her, barking with delight.
II evidently had followed her all the way
from Fulton. Ky, on foot.
Rev. James A. Bradley was fined 81
and costs in Justice Kinney's court in
| Columbus, Ind, for assault on his sou-in-
law. Henry KruSe. In the course of his
testimony the preacher said he was sit
| ting on the porch at the home of his SON
ln-law talking to a friend when his s0n-
ln-law came out on the porch and called
him name which aroused his fighting
| blood to the extent that he would have
! Knocked his Son-in-laws brains out had
not his two daughters held him
| After tempestuous courtship with
| thrilling incidents in three states the hove
affairs of Rebecca Duvall of Walkers
Mills and William l.. Dulfee were brought
| to focus in the marriage license Office
at PittShurg Ia. The Changing of prison
doors on the prospective bridegroom and
the drinking of carbolic acid by the bride
to-be were only incidents following the
| girls trip to West Virginia to marry
! Dutfee. Early in July Miss nuvall. who
| is 20, went to Charleston, w. Va. on
what she supposed was the sure route to
ma lrlmony, Dutfee met her and the
girl charged that he attacked and beat
her. Duffee fled to Ohio, where he was
arrested and taken back to Charleston.
| On July 10. while at the home of Sam
uel McMunn. Williamsburg. the girl
drank carbolic acid She was taken 10
the Columbia hospital where she quick
| ly recovered.
| Seattle has recently boosted, in connec-
ton with its exposition, that it held the
worlds record in the matter of harvest
ing, grinding and using wheat At the
| exposition wheat was cut. threshed,
glound and baked into bread in twenty
minutes. A correspondent of the st,
Louis GlobeDemocrat says however,
that that is slow time He cites the
case of a man out in Carroll county. Mo,
| who in 1878 cut and threshed wheat,
conveyed it forty rods to mill. ground il
into flour and cooked it into griddle cakes
all within three minutes aud tifty-hve
seconds from the time OF beginning the
| cutting of the grain, and into well-baked
| biscuits in minutes and 81 seconds,
| A gigantic catfish, the weight of which
| is estimated by sober Creve Occur fish
ermen Mt from Is to 100 pounds, is loose
| in cornfeld back of William Wipke )
| saloon on the edge OF the fake near St
long and ll2 feet broad across the back.
During the recent high water at the lake
| the overflow surged over a wire fence
inclosng the cornfeld and then receded,
leaving the field flooded, but the water
below the fence was so low that the big
fish was held a prisoner. Several farm
ers have seen the creature and Wipke
has offered n reward 70 any one who will
capture it. There have been several per
sons on the trail of the fish constantly
ever since it was sighted. 1t is said not
to be necessary to take a drink before
you can see the fish, nor TO have more
than two or three drinks before you are
sure it is feet long.
The n,eanest trick yet was perpetrat-
ed near Aspnwai, Pa, by stephen
Swartz. who when last seen was heading
for Pittsbnrg at great speed, few
rods ahead Of an angry crowd armed
wlth clubs SwartZ had swarm OF
bees enter an empty beer key while
swarming. He placed q plug in the key,
and later IN the afternoon tolephOued
for some of his friends to join him un-
der ii large tree just back of the town,
where they would have some beer, The
gang came quickly, TO find Swartz sit
ting by an innocent looking keg, which
had a large block of ice on top of IT,
When the crowd had gathered and lay
dlfpHA biA NUG grass NNHEAE tA'uNth lilIll-
self for a moment. AS he went he man
aged TO pull the plug from the keg, and
two minutes after he had fled there
We're about two peCks of mad bees in
the air around that keg 1t is said that
Swartz's friends were terribly stuug.
A fruit steamer from the West Indies
reported wonderful sights AT sea when
it arrived in New York harbOr. Capt
Fritz Borge Of the Mathilde Cuneo
while off Cape Hatteras, overhnuled
school of twenty-five whales chasing mil
lions of mackerel, which were leaping
through she water in terror at their 20
racious enemies. When first sighted the
whales were about a mile away from
the Cuneo. Capt. Borge ran in close
and found the ocean alive with mack
erel, glstening like silver IN the sun
| light as they swan. leaped and lunged
almost like flying fish in their panic 10
escape. One Of the immense black pur-
suers. opening lis jaws, would engulf q
barrel Of the fishes aud then fan bacls
la little, leaving the school 10 the re-
mainder Of his fellows who were max
inc