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NICE, QUIET WAKE- ISN'T HENRY'S NOTION OF GOOD TIME WHEN HE PLAYS CORPSE r Sacramento, Cal. A coffin may be all right for a dead one, but' it's no fit place for a stew, as Henry Mc Hale, undertaker's clerk, decided when he rolled off the water wagon and into a. satin-lined dust-to-dust box the other night. When McHale woke up from his nap in the coffin he raised -a -yell loud enough to raise the dead. They didn't pay any atten tion to it, however, but the police did. They came, they saw, they ran there's nothing in the police regula tions about arresting a dead man-cometo-life. McHale didn't like the kind of wake he was having and yell ed again, and kept on yelling until the cops came back with reinforce ments and "laid the ghost" by yank ing him off to the police station, where he'll have 30 days" to think about the kind of wake he'll have the next time. BECKER AGAIN FOUND GUILTY TO MAKE APPEAL New York, May 23.J For the sec ond time Charles Becker, ex-police lieutenants was found guilty of mur der in the first degree for conspiring to kill Herman Rosenthal, ex-gambler, for whose murder four gunmen have already given their lives. Only a pardon or interference by the Court of Appeals cah save him frtm fol lowing thenl to the electric chair. Until the moment he was brought into the courtroom after the jury had filed in with their verdict Becker as sured his wife he would be freed and he entered the court with a firm tread. When -the verdict 'Of 'guilty was announced in the shaken voice of the foreman of the jury, Becker swayed for a moment, then he stead ied himself. As he was led away to the Tombs, handcuffs on his wrists, Mrs. Becker threw herself updn him and sobbed. Becker will be sentenced on May 29. His counsel announced he will appeal. o o The children of San Francisco are" to have a wonderful flower garden all their own where they may pick many-colored blossoms to their hearts' content. This is the gift of the Outdoor Club. Five acres in Golden Gate Park have been set aside for this, purpose, idflftfkr-Tt mh'M;4Miitisi&