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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1941
Page
7
Mary Rowe alias Mary Johnson, 28, held on $10,000 bail as a material witness against brothers Anthony and William Esposito in the case dubbed the Mad Dog killers. Police say the girl was the sweetheart of Anthony.
General rain and snow have been widespread since yesterday across central and northern mountain states then clearing to the Atlantic. Light totals to date with snow still falling in the northern plateau. south to Atlantic to Pacific escaped precipitation.
James Snyder a jobless New York clerk kept a subway train waiting while retracing tracks for a dropped nickel. A suspended sentence followed his claim you’d do the same for your last nickel. He spoke of harmonizing jailer and jailee as two of sixteen prisoners used a hacksaw to keep time.
Ralph Castle watches a motor car skid down an icy street and narrowly miss a crash as it dodges a bus, only to discover the car is empty, prompting astonishment at the unseen driver.
After a seven room home burned the Smith family sought help with the Comers. The next morning Mrs. Smith alone in the house was making beds when the structure collapsed. She was injured and rushed to a hospital.
In Hazard Kentucky prisoners yelled a boisterous song for a second consecutive night. Jail official Grant Campbell checked from the second floor to hear and maybe assist, but what he observed was not detailed.
In McKeesport Pennsylvania a man and his wife in their late sixties entered a hospital as charity patients after the man collapsed on the street. Attendants noted $120 cash and bank books showing $200 in one account and $4,000 in another. Investigations revealed the wife owned real estate valued at $1,000.
John Harrison alerted police after hearing a crash in a dark kitchen. Officers entered with guns drawn and found a shattered bowl, bread dough on the floor, and dough rising, causing the bowl to fall from the table.
In Albuquerque courthouse, staff received free drinks when a vending machine malfunction caused pop bottles to cascade out. Joseph B. Velasquez, the county purchasing agent, halted the party and said the county must pay for the drinks from its receipts.
Mrs Mary Marshall hosted a seven oclock dinner party honoring Garnell Marshall and others. A Yucca theater outing followed by a Junior Woman's Club dance at Lake Van yielded a net nine dollars. Several residents, visitors, and military news appear, including re loons travel plans and a Dexter high school musical program.
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