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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, May 23, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 5

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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.
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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,
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