works at 355 Columbus avenue, next door to 64 West Seventy-second street, where Annie is employed. He was painting a sunset as a background for an advertising sign last Monday when the trouble began.
"I was on the ladder," he told Magistrate Steinert, "when I was struck by some eggshells. I watched the open window where this woman is employed and pretty soon I saw her peeking out. At first I took it as a joke."
"Pretty soon there were some more shells. I caught her looking out the window. So in a playful manner I made believe to throw back at her."
"Judge, then the eggs came at me strong. They weren't only shells; they had the goods. Pretty soon my sunset looked like an omelet. Then I got mad."
"Yes," interrupted Annie, "and in his anger he threw ice in the window at me. One piece struck me and hurt me. Then I got mad and dumped the hot water on him."
The cook was held in $300 bonds to insure future good behavior.
Another example of an opening that stimulates the
reader's desire to know more of an unusual incident is
seen in the following story:
If it hadn't been for a woman's curiosity
Wadislaus Brinko, who owns a
Lithuanian rooming house at 231 East
Hain street, wouldn't have confessed
to the police yesterday that he shot
and killed Jacob Watus, a roomer in
his house, on Oct. 23.
A coroner's inquest was proceeding in a routine way the day following the shooting and the jury was about to render a verdict of death by suicide, when Mrs. Anna Hannok, 416 Highland place, appeared on the scene. She had been attracted by the crowd outside the undertaking rooms, she said.
