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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.