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...Ramsey, N. J., when Jennie Quackenbush spurned his offer of marriage, Farmer William Storms pulled a $5 bill from his pocket, set fire to it. Then he went home, shot his three horses, set fire to his barn, tossed into the blaze life savings of $2,400 and the deed to his farm. Flames ignited his clothing, sent him dashing to a creek. Badly burned, he was dragged from the creek by a neighbor who started to drive him to a hospital. On the way they collided with a truck, wrecking the car. Next morning Farmer Storms died. Said Jennie...
Shortly after 4 p. m., the great hay barn of the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. was touched off, authorities believe, by a cigaret butt flicked from careless fingers. The hay acted as a blow torch on the surrounding tinder-like constructions of sprawling Packingtown, the vast stockyards area on Chicago's Southwest Side. Almost daily fires are extinguished in Packingtown. But when the dreaded "all-out" 4-11 signal clanged through the city's firehouses, firemen knew that this was no ordinary stockyards blaze...
...live amongst his old British family tree, awaiting the building of his own little nest, we travel space through her affair with his brother, and the resulting complications to where his brother's original country-gal wife, loving her husband and still liking his seductress, walks into the burning barn and thus out of the picture. The following nervous breakdowns, maddened raving, etc., turn what started out a very clever snappy job into a rather morbid dissection of human passion and pain...
Last week Colonel Bradley, an erect old gentleman with a tall hard collar and high black shoes, was already on hand at Churchill Downs to inspect his horses and, incidentally, to watch two of them. Barn Swallow and Tick On, come in second and third in the Clark Handicap, first day's feature at the track and a race as old as the Derby...
Four people, caught in the loft of a barn by a rising flood, while away what may be their last night of life by telling their true stories...