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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1950
Page
3
In New York a white wife of a Chinese waiter shot her four year old daughter early today. She told police she believed passers by were ridiculing the child's Oriental appearance and she did not want her daughter to suffer as she has. The child is in critical condition.
Police say Toy Yuk 3 year old was in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital after a shooting. The mother, identified as Mrs. Tom, 3 year old, was charged with felonious assault and possessing a dangerous weapon. Lt Demarest noted she intended to shoot herself, but the shot wounded the child. She fled to a neighbor and called police. Mrs. Tom and Jim Tom, 31, had separated and reconciled multiple times in seven years of marriage. They had recently spent the day together.
A woman in suburban Philadelphia told police she fought with her husband then returned to her apartment and fired three times at her sleeping daughter. The first shot clicked, the second misfired, and the third bullet hit the child in the temple. she said she had run away from a boarding home at 13 and had endured abuse since.
Thirty seven Wellington High School graduates will receive diplomas at tonight's commencement in the school auditorium. The program opens at 8 with orchestra directed by Miss Roberta Calderwood. Speaker is Frank ID Slut of Cincinnati. Alumni meeting follows in the school cafeteria, with dancing in the gym. Class president J Howard Furcron has won the Frank scholarship to Oberlin College. Also notes on Needlecraft convention attendance, local moves, anniversary dinner, and Lorain County historical society event.
ANOTHER HARVARD MOVIE CAMBRIDGE Harvard Ivy Films plans a second film titled Project 109 led by a Harvard wundergraduate. The first film Touch of the Times featured Harvard and Radcliffe students in the cast. SCORES TWO BIRDIES MEMPHIS Earl Crouse scored two birdies on one hole and killed a robin with his drive before finishing with a birdie. STREET OF TWINS BOSTON Seven sets of twins reside on Bigelow Street in Brighton within a single block.
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