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Show GIRL'S DAD WIELDS LASH ON OTHER MAN Husband Forgives Ker After Father Acts. Los Angeles. In place of "Home, Sweet Home," a snake whip is to ne placed over the door of the domicile of C. E. Knox, twenty-two. and his wife, Loretta. seventeen, at 1319 North Gordon avenue. While ten riot calls were being flashed to the police and a large crowd watched, the snake whip, plied by Mrs. Knox' irate father, P. T. Quaderkirk, sixty, flayed the cowering form of Ervin Knrinus, twenty-two, at Santa Monica boulevard and Gower avenue. Quaderkirk's reason for publicly beating Radous, as explained at Hollywood Holly-wood station, was that Itadous was paying ardent attention to Mrs. Knox. Qnaderkirk continued : "I want the whip, inclosed in a nice glass case, to be placed over the door as a constant reminder that a decent life is the most important thing In marriage." Radous Is married and is the father of an eighteen-month-old child. He lives with his family In the same apartment ap-artment house as Mr. and Mrs. Knox. Quaderkirk, who holds to old-fashioned views on fidelity, marital con-duet con-duet and personal behavior, came to the conclusion Radous was too frequently fre-quently In Mrs. Knox' company. The latter's husband was said to know nothing of the affair. The elderly father of the young Mrs. Knox discussed the affair with his own wife and decided to employ summary measures. Mrs. Quaderkirk accompanied her husband when he bought a carefully selected whip. Then, with Knox in the automobile, he drove to the building where his daughter Is employed as a telephone operator, and when Radous Joined her, followed. The whipping took place a short time later. , |