Show rieb rich prankster tried to win prize with 11 na probably no american ever spent as much time and money playing pranks as did brian G hughes a wealthy new yorker who died in 1924 of his scores of practical jokes all succeeded but one an attempt to win a pr prize ze at a madison square garden horse s show h ow in the with a nag he had bought for 11 noticing that the animal would not move until its rider jingled a little bell in n its ear the judges became suspicious and questioned hughes and he confessed trying to fool them with this horse which he had purchased from a streetcar company and named orphan often pulled a car |