Wilkes-Barre Times. 1906-07-16
Ghostly Find in Police Raid
Allentown, Pa., July 16. While the guests made merry over her body, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolfe, aged 53 years, lay dead on the parlor floor at her home in this city early yesterday morning, having been killed by a fall against a stove after being pushed by her husband, it is alleged. Mrs. Wolfe had given a party and during the night she attacked her husband with a chair. In defending himself, he says, he threw her against the stove. She did not rise again, but thinking that she was asleep, the guests continued with the festivities until two policemen came to stop the noise. It was then found that the woamn was dead. Coroner Butz is investigating the case.
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Nice. Well, it is Allentown, after all.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Ouija Crime Fighting
The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1920-05-26
Ouija Leads Sleuths Right to Liquor Cache
Disconsolate Custome Officers Water Hours in "Tips, Then Spirits Get Busy
How a Ouija board was used to successfully locate a ship with liquor on board, became known than eight of Uncle Sam's custom insprectors yesterday returned from the American steamer Lake Superior, lying at 34 North Wharves.
The "liquor" detail had been out all the morning, with a submarine chaser, boarding American craft, anchored or lying at thier berths, all the way from Port Richmond to Marcus Hook, without so much as getting a whiff of the beverage that cheers.
The hour had come for the detail to go out again on a still hunt for smugglers, but where, that was the burning, sizzling question that demanded an answer. Some one said, "Why nt try the ouija board, just for once?"
"Agreed," said the chief, and from a dark closet some one brought a Ouija board. The first number indicated by the tapping of the planchette was 34. Not satisfied they had the ouija make the planchette repeat the number seven times and each time, it repeated the numerals 34.
"But," the chief said, "there is a 34 North and a 34 Couth Wharves". Again the toy said 34, and like a lot of schoolboys going to ta ball game, they rushed to Walnut street wharf and boarding the submarine chaser was soon alongside the steramer Lake Superior.
Two hours later they returned to 334 Sotuh Second street, bearing 55 bottles of as fine a selection of domestic and imported brands as ever came through the worm of a legalized still in pre-Prohibition times.
Ouija Leads Sleuths Right to Liquor Cache
Disconsolate Custome Officers Water Hours in "Tips, Then Spirits Get Busy
How a Ouija board was used to successfully locate a ship with liquor on board, became known than eight of Uncle Sam's custom insprectors yesterday returned from the American steamer Lake Superior, lying at 34 North Wharves.
The "liquor" detail had been out all the morning, with a submarine chaser, boarding American craft, anchored or lying at thier berths, all the way from Port Richmond to Marcus Hook, without so much as getting a whiff of the beverage that cheers.
The hour had come for the detail to go out again on a still hunt for smugglers, but where, that was the burning, sizzling question that demanded an answer. Some one said, "Why nt try the ouija board, just for once?"
"Agreed," said the chief, and from a dark closet some one brought a Ouija board. The first number indicated by the tapping of the planchette was 34. Not satisfied they had the ouija make the planchette repeat the number seven times and each time, it repeated the numerals 34.
"But," the chief said, "there is a 34 North and a 34 Couth Wharves". Again the toy said 34, and like a lot of schoolboys going to ta ball game, they rushed to Walnut street wharf and boarding the submarine chaser was soon alongside the steramer Lake Superior.
Two hours later they returned to 334 Sotuh Second street, bearing 55 bottles of as fine a selection of domestic and imported brands as ever came through the worm of a legalized still in pre-Prohibition times.
How weird is this?
A Pennsylvanian transsexual allegedly killed her husband by castrating him. Tammy Lynn Felbaum is charged with manslaughter, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and unauthorised practice of medicine and surgery. Investigators originally thought her sixth husband died of a drug overdose. The castration was only discovered later. Felbaum apparently told police that her husband performed the surgery on himself, only intervening when the operation went wrong and he had signed a consent form. Felbaum is being held in Cambria County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on March 20, 2001. (from a Reuters story last year)
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