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Unable to arouse C.R. Apted '03, superintendent of care takers. The officers summoned the watchman of the Business School who secured the building. Plain clothesman Frank White, after a search of the premises, declared nothing had been lost...
...Ottawa, Ill., George Jakubsen, railroad crossing watchman, drew his life savings, $1,460. from a bank which he was afraid would fail, hid it. Later he looked for the money, could not find it. He brooded, finally killed himself with poison. When officers searched his effects they found the $1,460 between the leaves of a book...
...Kansas City, Mo., J. B. McComas, night watchman in Commerce Trust Co., jumped on a prowling figure, discovered his captive was a hungry lo-yr.-old runaway who had squeezed through the bank's window bars in search of food...
...escort volunteered to storm the window. He was neither here nor there when a Yard watchman apprehended the visible portion of his body. University officials seemed to be satisfied with...
...Dressed in silk hat and long-tailed coat he approached Girard College, Philadelphia, to give an address. Explained the watchman, barring Dr. Wiley: "Stephen Girard laid down in his will that no minister of the Gospel be permitted to enter these grounds." Dr. Wiley: "The hell you say!" Watchman: "Walk right...