Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-16 | Page 1 | Is a Person Buried in a Grave Legally 'Indoors' ?

Is a Person Buried in a Grave Leg Legally lly Indoors LOS ANGELES Nov No 16 UP f City City prosecutors perspired through their collars wrenched of off neckties and reduced their voices to hoarse whispers today arguing arg whether a person buried in a grave Is legally indoors Detectives aided and abetted by 11 policemen and 14 city jail trusties trusties trusties trus trus- ties tossed the problem in the hegal le legal legal le- le gal departments department's lap when they dug up pretty prett Gloria Graves Gravos burled alive girl and arrested her for violating a city ordinance prohibiting indoor endurance contests This show is pinched chorused chorused chorused cho cho- detective lieutenants of the vice squad shouldering through a n athin athin thin crowd on an uptown lot where Miss Graves had been entombed entombed entombed en en- a week Robert Wood ticket taker looked over the ordinance Looky he said This heres here's against flagpole sitting and marathon marathon mara niara- thon dancing I give you my word Miss Graves aint sitting on ois onno onno no flagpole and its it's a cinch she aint dancing down there He waved a l lhand hand to a mound of earth eight feet beneath which S was the narrow grave of Miss Graves but the detectives paid him no heed Gravely they surrounded the peephole through which customers customers customers cus cus- peered He Hey shouted Lieutenant Jennings Jennings Jen Jen- youre under arrest Come Como up outa there I cant can't trilled Miss Graves Come and get me The detectives did They summoned summoned summoned sum sum- reinforcements armed with pick and shovel and three hours later Miss Graves rOC rose from tho tomb But please wailed Wood it all aU for That ordinance explained tho the law Jaw majestically aint only for tor flagpole sitters and marathon dancers Its It's agin all aU Indoor endurance endurance en en- durance contests Ya dumm dummy retorted Miss Graves who ever eer he heard rd of a grave with a door Ya cant can't prove provo Vo Wo dont don't refuted the police pollee up tip to the prose prose- Sure Sure put in a b bystander Lawyers arc are so wonderful