19 Oct 2008 | By
charlotte
More than 60 years after Mary Ruth Justice’s wallet disappeared, her family returned to Georgia College & State University to claim it. Her niece, Marjorie Williams, and nephew, Sterling Justice, went to campus Thursday to get the alligator-skin wallet of their aunt, who died two decades ago.
Construction crews renovating the university’s theater found the wallet a few weeks ago on the ledge of a wall in the basement. It contained five black-and-white photographs, a Social Security card and a Georgia state employment card bearing the woman’s name. Campus officials tracked down her family and told them about the wallet, which disappeared in the 1940s.
Justice was born in 1920 in Sparta, but eventually moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where she died in 1978.
19 Oct 2008 | By
charlotte
Here is another reason to have good security systems at your home or business.
A 42-year-old man, dressed up like the elderly owner of a Baldwin County, Alabama beauty parlor and tried to break into her shop so he could look at himself in a mirror. The man was wearing a blond wig when he allegedly attempted to burglarize a shop. Deputies said the man told them he wanted to sit in the owner’s chair and look at himself.
The owner said she was in bed about 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday when she saw car lights in front of her beauty shop, which is next to her home. She looked out the window and thought the burglar was a woman, but her 17 year old grandson said it looked like a man dressed as a woman.
Eventually the intruder gave up trying to break in, got back in his car and started to drive away. A deputy stopped the car as it was leaving and arrested the man. The man was charged with third-degree burglary. The man’s brother said he has mental problems and is obsessed with dressing like women.
