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Show DIDN'T KNO.W CURLING -IRON Eaoy to Understand That Youthful Member of Chicago Jury Was Not a Married Man. Every man Imown what a curling Iron In, but. dues every man know whet her or not :i ( in line Iron hi a deadly weapon? The qur-tlon was raised 111 Judge Onei'ln's eourl. in Chicago recently in the Ol.lo Malhln murder trial. Otto said he slabbed his brother, Edward, when Edward attacked him with a curling Iron, which he thought a dan-herons dan-herons weapon. The judge ruled a description de-scription of the Implement was unnecessary, unnec-essary, as everybody knew what It was. "Sure, I know," one spectator whispered whis-pered to another. "A curling iron In one of those hot. things that burn your fingers when you are fumbling around among the things on your wife's dressing dress-ing table." "It looks like a pair of .scissors with wooden handles," said (lie other. "And It's deadly, too," a woman whispered. "Mazie got hers too hot the other night and the way It killed a lot of her hair was a caution." "Fortunately," another woman answered, an-swered, "the curling iron bath no miseries mis-eries that peroxide cannot cure." Assistant Slate's Attorney Dan! el Ramsay Insisted there might be sin; ; men on the jury. The judge glance l knowingly at the jurors. The youngest young-est looked bewildered. So Judge Ouerin ordered a description of the weapon supplied. The youngest juror appeared relieved when he heard what it was. |