On Central Park West he swerved at Seventy-ninth Street to avoid a passenger from a trolley car. The wheels skidded and Leechman was thrown. The police could get no ambulance for half an hour, and then Leechman was dead.
Friends say motor cycling had always been Leechman’s hobby, but he had not been able to purchase one until the day of his death.
Hog Nearly Eight Feet Long.
A hog weighing 1,210 pounds and less than two years old is the record in swine raising made by Colonel W. E. Wimpey, of De Kalb County, Ga. The hog is 7 feet 10 inches long, 39½ inches high, and 74½ inches around the body.
Cupid Calls Mayor to Aid of Pastor.
Backed up with a letter of commendation from the Bishop of Ontaria and kind words from other persons of prominence, a clergyman of the Church of England, from Barrie, Canada, has asked Mayor Mitchel, of New York City, to find him a wife.
When the mayor replied he had no means of obtaining wives, but would be glad to publish his letter, the minister sent the following:
“Dear Sir: This is to thank you for kindly acceding to my request to aid me in finding a wife, and you may publish my want. I desire a well-bred, cultured woman, healthy, cheerful, preferably not over thirty years of age. For publication let me repeat that I am an Episcopalian minister, graduate of a leading university, healthy, vigorous, bright, artistic, practical, affectionate, and very devoted where deserved.
“I send you credentials that will enable you to attest my position and social standing.
“Of course, all communications will be honorably treated by me as strictly confidential.”