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Show TAKES WRONG DOSE AND AROUSES POLICE By talcing the wrong medicine through misreading the prescription label. William Hobbs. a fish peddler living at Third Wrst and Kighth South streets, gave himself a had half hour last night, which included, bosldcs various and sundry aches and pains, the notoriety of being mistaken for a would-be sulcldo. Neighbors of Hobbs, hearing his painful pain-ful remarks following the swallowing of the wroiiK dose, called the police, who made a rapid run in the patrol. They found ITobba pacing tho floor In an entirely en-tirely unpleasant mood, his hands clasping clasp-ing his stomach. r'Where's th suicide?" demanded Patrolman Pa-trolman Mike Conyors, "lead us to him." "Suicide be d ." replied Hobbs. "Aln t it bad enough to swallow essence of peppermint by mistake without being taken for a sulcldo? Get out of here." The police retired prcclpitntelv. |