Evening star., 1933-01-29

Alpha the electrical man invented by
Harry May, an EngliShman, last year made
good his threat to wreak vengeance on his in
ventor. AS a part of the "act" during exhib-
tions, the robot, holding gum would say:
Look out, or III blow your hand off" AS it
uttered the words one day last Fall the gun
was fired and May was injured.
During the year 1892 "finis" was written to
three of the most dramatic accident stories of
modern times.
Back in 1927, three children in the family of
Uriah Richards were killed in train n-automo-
bile crash near Ortig Wash. Two years after
the father was killed when struck down by an
automobile at Mcmillan.
That left four survivors. Last June these four
were riding in small truck near Puyallup AS
they started to cross q railroad track a train
bore down upon them and killed them. That
left the Grim Reaper with a perfect batting
average so far as that one family was con-
cerned.
JACK SCHAUB, the Californian said to have
- caused the largest compensation loss for
any individual case in the country, finally died
last Fall. He was injured in industrial &C
cident in 1917 and at the time doctors said
he could not live six months. He hung on for
a goody span of years, although paralyzed from
the waist down, and the case cost the State
close to $4,000 for hospital and surgical care
sale. N. j.. also died last year. His case was
similar to that of Schaub except that he was
known to thousands of world celebrities. many
of whom visited him in the hospital. He was
bedridden 81 years following an industrial
accident
Miss Kara Gutchreien German dancer, had
her eleventh auto accident last year.
Many of last years accidents were not with
out their humorous angles.
One was reported from a hospital in Wilkes
Barre. The patient. a miner went home with
dynamite cap in his pocket. Tired out, he sat
down heavily In a chair.
The cap exploded, the chair was riddled and
so was large part of the victims dorsal area.
But the shock corrected nervous ailment, re-
sulting in lost memory, which had troubled him
for years. Now the poor fellow is trying to
figure out which he'd rather possess-his think
or his sitter.
THEN there was the young Missourian who
was toying with .22-caliber pistol when
a fly perched on his knee. For some strange
reason he took careful aim at the visitor and
fired The bullet hit his kneecap and, no
doubt, put permanent crease in his trousers.
Two youngsters in Tennessee set fire to an
old hens tail feathers to keep her from setting.
Ablaze and squawking she made for the barn.
The barn. bin of wheat and horse burned
at loss of S., 900. Seeking to aid firemen,
volunteer grabbed a hose and accidentally
turned it on the chief, critically injuring his
eye.
In the string of kite lies the thread of the
following story:
A 13-yearold youngster was flying his kite
when the string got tangled up in 60, 0,O0O-volt
power line. Things started happening. The
line short-crouited, burst into flames and
broke A loose end fell on passerby knocked
off his hat ard burned it like tinder.
The end then dropped on the pavement,
IT,
paving, and into gas main. The gas ignited
with roar. ~ y..--. * 4gs - -
And the orly person hurt was the youngsteys
whose only tIjuries came after the excitement