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SHAVED MONKEY USED IX Si*AIT. MAN HOAXANOTHER USA. STUNTAn Atlanta • Oeor^iai barber .smkI that .-it shaved a dead monkey, Inked an .nridrnt on a hlghwav. then reported thiif he und two • onipniuntis had raptured « space-man from a flying saucer”barber. Edward Waters. 28. told lanta Judge .hut he had «m-i the hoax to win a 10-do Jar bet tJiui hr could get lus nliotojirnp i into the newspapers He and Ins oartners had claimed that they captured the rreature while two of Its companions escape l m an lmer-planetar flying machine Waters was urre-icd on « charge of rruelty to mi wiimal.This chnrae was dismissed when the police found t.uit the men Jiad killed the monkey in another countv, but the Judge fined him 40 dollars for having obstructed a main road by staging an hulden: to support hts ■tory.Watei won his bet. but the fine and the 50 dollars the monkey had ooot him left him 80 dollars • C3C» out of pocket. .•
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Braidwood Review and District Advocate
Braidwood, New South Wales, AU
Tue, Jul 21, 1953
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