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Show MEDAL OF HONOR SAVED HIM New Jersey Legion Member Escapes Jail Sentence by Display of His Emblem. Sentimental considerations left out of the reckoning, Frank Sadowskl, an American Legion member of Newark, N. J., found out the other day that a Congressional Medal of Honor is a handy thing to have. Sadowskl works in the day time and sleeps at night. That is, he had been sleeping of nights until a couple of loving cats began a noisy courtship on his back fence. Sadowski stood It as long as he could and then went down in his old barracks bag and dragged out the trusty automatic he carried In France. The cats became casualties and Sadowski became a prisoner of the law and was hailed into court charged with disturbing the peace. The evidence was all against him and he was about to be sentenced when, inadvertently, he mentioned that he once killed six Germans single sin-gle handed and captured their machine gun with the same revolver with which he routed the yowling cats. For this feat he won America's highest war honor, and a string of lesser medals. He produced the medals as proof and the judge let him off. |