Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1927 — Page 12

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NOTORIOUS JOKER WHOAGGRAVATED ENGLANDIS DEAD Daubing Statue With Raspberry Jam One of Smith’s Deeds. Bu United Press LONDON, March 25.—England's most notorious “practical joker” is dead. Living the so-called simple life in' a small town near here, "W. A. H. Bernhard Smith, was known to some people merely as a studious scholar and clever poet, but with others he achieved notoriety as a joker. Sometimes his practical jokes mystified scientists and alarmed the people of the town where he lived, even arousing the newspapers at times to comment on their audacity and cleverness. In January, 1923, a statute at the British Museum was found daubed with raspberry jam. This remained a mystery for some weeks until Smith confessed to the deed. In May, 1919, a joke was perpetrated at Ramsgate, when the window of a magistrate’s house was smashed by a thunderbolt. Bits of the thunderbolt were picked up and sent to the best laboratories here for examination, but the windowsmashing thunderbolt remained a mystery until Smith sent the following letter to London newspapers: “I bought the meteor for six-pence and was assured that it was a real thunderbolt. I threw it at the window and to my amazement the window broke the thunderbolt.” For this joke Smith was fined $lO and $7.50 costs. During the war Smith dressed in a grotesque costume and lived in a cave on the coast and caused some alarm among the coast residents who thought him a German spy. The authorities put an end to that joke. Smith kept a large circle of London friends constantly wondering when one of them would become the subject of one of his jokes. An inmate of an lowa prison was so satisfied with his surroundings that he refused to leave when his term was out, and had to be ejected.

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