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■ Skins Cat, Lights Fire In Street, Intends to Stew Feline to Get Fat. ..At.mvea *■Man at First Believed Demented Arrested Trying Voodoo Stunt On Farmington Avenue After Mid-1' night—Examined by Physician and Declared Sound Mentally.Found tiy poll* • i, n boiling a rat which he hud sklnmd ami tlr^wtl, for tlie purpos- of obtaining fat which he claim' ll sbm-onc told him van a cur*- for rlu uttmtism. John ItchchlQBkl of Horace str«. i. \v;te inkon Into custody early today for nnfe keeping, and 1 li•- public welfare deportment wus notlfi. *|.Officer William •»'!h»y of the “motorcycle squad learned that a man was making a Ur- In tin mlihll- uf i he street on Farmington avenue and Supernumerary Officer llosarlo Tnta also learned of it about 12:•!5 o'clock. With Officer 1.. K. Mur-pcr they found that Uebohinski had lighted a fire after procuring n ran of wrvter and was boiling tit*-lie sold he had rheumatism In the leg am! the fat was said to be u Rood •'rub.Sup* r Int-n !• it John !.. Dbyh* of II). public W Ifare lt;1* jinrttOellt interviewed Uid.ohlnski at th- pollc* hta-ilon today and learned that he 1ms been suffering from rheumatism tn*I Ilk- many oil • rs who iry vnr-ous rlt; medics h was quick lo give llie it • ure a trjal. H- b lleved th* person who toi.i him of it was sin -cere, nnd he thought he could tr11 without attrnr' iiur altentlon If lie wont on* Farmington :r “nue.I l-heli inski is about t'.fl yefir** of 1«•* and -uild lie hue lived in New Britain 29 years. He is not maned and has no Immediate relatives. Aft or Dr. George II. Dalton examin'd him nnd pronounced him sane, ho was taken lo his home by the nolle*'. Dr. Dalton raid the nin.it Was rot physlcuity well but he could do. tort nothing wrong with his menial condition.
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New Britain Herald
New Britain, Connecticut, US
Fri, Aug 30, 1929
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