Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1911 — SHOVE PROVES TO BE LUCKY [ARTICLE]

SHOVE PROVES TO BE LUCKY

Man Is Pushed to Street During Row on Platform of Street Car and He Grabs SSO Bill. Chicago.—Chance working as an automatic claim adjuster recompensed a man who gave his name as Hervey Kingsley, Coldwater, Tex., for a fall the other night from a State street car. Kingley had been arguing with a man on the rear platform. Just as the car reached Thirtieth street the man, by way of emphasizing a point, knocked his opponent into the street. Kingsley rolled along for a few yards in a vain effort to keep up with the suddenly withdrawn motion of the car. Then, with much difficulty, he arose He was dusting bls hands with a piece of paper which he had picked up when a policeman arrived, and asked him if he was hurt * “I'm murdered,” he answered. “Say that guy might have killed me. He's a thug, a big, barn faced, lop eared, swivel eyed—” Kingsley suddenly paused and began examining the piece of paper with which he had been dusting his hands. His eyes opened to an extraordinary width. He turned the paper over two or three tlmea “11l take it all back," he said pres ently. "That guy was sth angel with blue and pink wings. 11l bet the music plays every time he goes by a church, and that he wouldn't hit a mosquito if it lit in hi* hand*.*' The paper was a SSO bill.