Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1912 — Clock Struck Backward. [ARTICLE]

Clock Struck Backward.

Chicago.—Because his grandfather’s clock struck backward, Patrick Calhoun spent several days In a Jail cell. Waking at 5 o’clock in the morning he heard the clock strike five, and decided he would Nsleep another hour. Half awake at six o’clock he heard the clock strike four, and turned over this time for two hours of rest. At eight o’clock he arose in wrath, as the clock was striking two. He stormed because i ß6r K wife had let him miss morning mass. She called the police and Patrick was taken to jail. j / After the arrest Mrs! Calhoun remembered she had cleaned the clock the day before and upon investigating noticed she had put the wheel which regulated the striking in backward.