| Show THE FOOL PRACTICAL JOKER Death Insanity and and nd Bodily Injury a 1 Few of the Results Re of or His Hi Work V ork T all came about from the Idea Ide of ot a IT 11 girl Jirl ut lit Ve the he tunch hour w a the Kansas bass City Cl lJ y Journal 0 uri tat that sho eho could M Have sumo somo fun tUII fearing her ber by exploding H a squib in a IL stove lua Ae unusual re was th the not In Ili The hI confined confuted In the too clove and ld the tho dying Hying spark tw w it Il to lo plebes t 1 oft If the store storo of or powder In tho room ne the building to tu hUBe up at the old ond explosion and und f t venil veral girls girl ran into iIO to till the litre their hair and und dresses 1111 In nOn It was wall only nl a Joke was the of ot three Hire men when hn they till were nt rat N X Y Yand and 1 indicted for tor tumult They Th tia hall bad hallId l Id Andrew Andrea Clark to 14 boy bo In a with a n kicking mule The boyI boy bo h I 4 1 convulsions and nl It t was many days daysI 1111 I lefore for the tho doc doctors torn pronounced I him out tit III t danger of losing Ills life by II the joke A white while robed lobed figure appeared In n the thet t r In III loot front of ot the Ihl carriage in which Frank Daly of ot Summit was Wall with the woman ho had Just Ju t made his wife The Tho ghost seared scared the tre which ran away When It was chocked checked Dully 1111 suddenly ny threw up liP his urine arms over his hll head and foil fell II limply across the dashboard The Jok jolt JokI tr I r learned loomed of or the tracts track sequel hen Then Mr Mrs Dally Did I drove droe into town lOll II with Ill dead body boat bod of or her husband Peter Kuhn was frightened to death Math by weird In the night a ut Norris Morris City tit lit Ills body was found In bod bud bodIn In the Hie morning with ft n look of or horror on in 11 tare face A null driven In n a R shingle rf rr the roof above the head of or his bed held heldi helda a i tin ran can to which a JL long string had licen heen attached The practical Jokers ii 11 I rubbing this string with rosin pro pm Iced dared j eed tho the sounds sound Kuhn was Ia known br by b tho the Jokers to be a firm believer In bk ghosts oe young oun men of lr Crowley La Ia thought It was wall a good Joke to lock fork Su Sun SuSan Mn San n Washington In hr the room morn with an 1111 I empty The girl 1111 thought BO en too it u first but hut became tHrilled when hours pasted passed i and all was vas still the Jokers has hav hR 1111 left I tt her to spend the entire night I Ilu In lu tho the room She died a 1 few tel hours at atar tT tr being release 1 reI asad Of ot course people ought ou hl not to lo die of ot flight Neither r should they go so crazy either results r from the natural cheerfulness cheer cher cheerfulness of ot the Joker 13 n n D Master Meeter I fr a u farmer 65 years old at nt Huntington W 1 Va a Is I hopelessly ly Inane Ir one as AK the result re ull of ot n R Joke played on him by h his grandchildren At a family reunion six of ot the grandson running from 15 HUt to 31 34 years of oC age re 11 reading residing siding ading at a 9 planned as H Ii Joke that each Mch should write tho the old alii man a aletter aletter letter the Ihl following fallowing week Each Kach was Willi to express JI solicitude 1 for his hili safety since rince tho Iho writer had dreamed that his h II grandfather had died The letters letter arrived one by II one Olle On Monday came cam the first nut Tuesday the Wednesday and Thursday like ilkI Utters followed to II all with the same canto dark foreboding The matter preyed upon the old uld man matis mind so 50 peachy heavily that by Saturday he lost o t hh his reason Frank rank l Dawley a mechanic at East Hast shot hot a II neighbor In the thigh The wound did not prove prO very ery and Dawley was wan owl nut ar or arrested rested Then the fool Joker happened along He lie told DAlf the man he hP shot was waa dying that he lit would be surety surely sure arrested ar arrested rested ruled Dawley took th the Joke us ly Iy went lo to his hili room got Jot n ft revolver end told his n he meant to kill him 4 She took tho weapon In from him bra tut t he be found It again and fired droll It Into hi big head A Joker of ot the UtI lying type told James If 11 I Lacy LaC of Wilmington Del DM that hl hla hia hiat r I had bad at yea rea ea Lacy 14 became t and ancl was wan seized Felted with hys h s convulsions which resulted In 1 his lila losing lo control of or his hiM vocal ocal organs Orlan l He fe had conic to town lon to meet his broth brother er r but fell feU Into the clutches II of the fool tool Joker who represented himself as 88 the fin mute male on his hia hl brothers ship that had hael Just juat put Into tort rt The shot k su so 0 I dazed dared Lacy Lary that h he fell Into Inlo spasms of ot and later lost his power of or speech A practical Joker nearly killed WIN Wil F Jones Jon of by b one of the best belt known method Jones was 8 with witha Ith IthA A Aching Ashing party parly lit at t Averne Aern bythe Sea when one oue of ot his hl companion drew a aIr Ir out from under him as he was wasi i about to It lt town down Ito Jones fell tell violently Ho Ue was at taken to the th Far Rockaway hospital hOl In convulsions r suffering from t injury j n tur to the spine pine Jam James a mem her r of th the Mercury Athletic club lost bat batda II lilt da life by this same joke A member of the club his hili chair when he hI attempted to sit lilt down lie III de l from front spinal due du to 10 the Injury he received In the fall fail The loaded laded t Is 18 one of lr th the theold old favorites of the practical Joker It U pet cott danl l of ot 1 Ii the she thumb und nai two rise fingers of ot Ills lils left hand and anti s suit HIlt nt him to St Bt Catherine Catherines hospital suffering from those thoo and an other wounds A friend fond of ot fun tun had hall placed a II cartridge In lu his cigarette Arc Are you ready r to 10 bark Jack time the Joker friends of John McDonald u Ii silk bilk mill operator ut at Patterson called after him following n R turtle he had bud with a s 1 dog supposed to be b mud In which h hwa hll ha wa was severely bitten The Jokers also a 1511 burked barked when hen they ram rain near Only Dill McDonald and ami IKI his hi aged mother mill her knew kne the torture at ot the Ihl bantering and his horrible conviction borne In on him stronger n er from day da to Ui day that In the end those these Iho t pokes would come rome true I rut M Mr I Donald died t two kw months after lit lie was I bitten In iii violent II nt paroxysms of or hydro hydrophobia phobia at al St SI Jo ho I Josephs hospital Once In a awhile while th II a tl Joker i with his own life fir tr the th run fun i 1 of ot trying to stare scare someone else Into fits Mrs Irl W F S Lane nt lit Covington Ky K saw someone stealthily moving about her room when she Bhe awoke nt nl night Fearing she pho was vas about to b bt attacked she slit n a that wan waa hanging near her bet bel be 1 and shot hot the intruder She then found she Ithe had fwd killed l her son JOon who was waa dressed In n a 1 dU guise Kul Arid and IId had to tu give his nether mother u n scare A Jury In Philadelphia last month found Harry Norris guilty gullI or of murder In the second d de degree gre ref Norris Nor 1111 was aas II a 1 practical r It 11 was all UK ae K a joke Inks he henos now nos avers that lu te confused confessed l t to the murder of or lara Clara McGonnell A R young milliner He JI says nays he mode mild his e Ion con n flo to give che his hili brother a II shuck The flip Jury Jur t look Iok ok It ly however and Is II now no serious himself lr Then timers there was wan lH Samuel Ayr Ayres why who ho arranged to tu hold up it a friend In III H It adark dark rave ease at Pittsburg and to 10 pretend robbery Art Ayr tyres and amt his companions worn wore masks and he the the play began The rely nb hitch Inthe in the Joke wits that the friend who nut iwar being heing drew a R revolver and alit shot hlll tyres Atu dd An n 11 iu ru liy ly IN is at lit Ih l nf of e of ot of r Iii Ih joker jk I i ru rim I tr or If fin Illy u nl thoughtless the tOlI joker I u danger dangerous oua ous type ns liS this diet f r me tug record may serve to II show sho |
