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CALLS REFORMER A COMMON SCOLD; Special Sessions Justice Says a Ducking Stool Would Fit Burke's Case.

CALLS REFORMER A COMMON SCOLD; Special Sessions Justice Says a Ducking Stool Would Fit Burke's Case.
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Luckily for Thomas P. Burke of 310 West Forty-eighth Street ducking stools for the punishment of common scolds are out of vogue. Otherwise Mr. Burke would not have escaped with a suspended sentence when he was arraigned yesterday in Special Sessions on a charge of having written annoying letters to Michael C. Donahue, an undertaker at 251 West Forty-ninth Street. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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