Wedding

The New York Sun reported:

"Warden Clarence Merritt and Deputy Warden Frank Phelan of the Yonkers city jail announce the marriage of their prisoner. Philip Slavickas of 152 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, to Miss Isabella Spero of 1252 Sixty-Second Street. Brooklyn. . . .

''The marriage took place in the barred cubicle of Warden Merritt's office at the Yonkers jail. Justice of the Peace Albert Fiorillo officiated. Miss Spero was tastefully dressed in a black tailored ensemble and wore a corsage of gardenias. Mr. Slavickas wore the customary striped trousers, the stripes running horizontally instead of vertically.

"The wedding was small and restricted to intimate friends. The families of the bride and bridegroom did not attend. The witnesses were Messrs. Merritt and Phelan. After the ceremony the happy couple separated, the bridegroom returning to his bachelor cell block in the jail, the bride to the home of her parents.

"The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Plotkar Slavickas of Glotz, Lithuania. He came to this country as a young man and after a preliminary education in the public schools . . . entered Elmira Penitentiary after successfully passing the entrance requirements. Mr. Slavickas graduated on parole with the class of 1932. While at Elmira he was quarterback on the football team."

"The couple had made arrangements to marry on April 21 and obtained a license for that date but a crisis in the affairs of Mr. Slavickas caused the marriage to be advanced. It appears that Mr. Slavickas was celebrating his forthcoming nuptials with a party of friends on Friday night at his home. It was by way of being a bachelor's dinner and refreshments were plentiful.

"As the evening progressed and the guests departed in varying stages of felicity, Mr. Slavickas suddenly found himself in possession of a revolver. He looked around and discovered that he was in strange surroundings--in fact, he was in the middle of a dark, deserted street.

"Unable to explain the presence of the gun in his hand, yet feeling that something ought to be done about it, he began loading the chambers with a few odd cartridges he oddly discovered in his vest pocket. It was at this point that he felt a hand on his shoulder and a policeman's breath on the back of his neck.

"Mr. Slavickas was escorted to the Yonkers City Jail, where a charge of violation of the Sullivan law was placed against him. His fiancee, Miss Spero . . . felt that while there was life there was hope, and the following morning arrived at the jail with the marriage license in her purse. . . .

"Mr. & Mrs. Slavickas are now awaiting the action of the Grand Jury with eager anticipation."

Moleman

In Hollywood Hubert C. Wright climbed down a venthole, found himself in a dead space between two cellars. After dark, he sawed his way into one of the cellars, ascended to a drug-store where he mixed himself an ice-cream soda. Returning to his hole he decided to make it his home. For three months he did so. Peeking through a crack one day with a 50-c- telescope he learned the combination of the drug-store safe. That night he robbed it of $600. Scurrying back to his hole, he dug deep into the earth, cached the $600. Caught by police, he explained: "I'm a human mole. ... I liked the company of termites and rats and cats better than the company of man." Mole Wright was adjudged sane enough to be sentenced to San Quentin.

Hot

In St. Clairsville, Ohio, John Solles, 65, was haled into court for spanking his grandmother, Eleanor P. Uscar, 101. Explained Spanker Solles: "I got drunk and anyway I got mad at her because she got hot Easter morning and wanted to go out and play, and I wanted her to go to church."

Solomon

In Everett, Mass., when Judge Beaudreau could not get Negress Evelyn Richardson, 20, to decide which of three Negro bucks was correct in admitting paternity of her one child, he ruled that all three bucks contribute to the support of Mother Richardson & child.*

*An oldtime Negro saying: "When de maker cain't be found, de endorser am liable."

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