HARBOR GATEWAY HERALD (Sunday Edition)

Mrs. Edgar Llewellyn, who resides at 132 Songbird Lane, was confronted yesterday by cashier, Harvey Sessfunkle, at the Harbor Gateway Blvd. Piggly Wiggly. He accused her of maliciously hoarding essential can goods, and he immediately contacted the proper authorities who arrived with great dispatch. The seemingly unbalanced, Mrs. Llewellyn, became belligerent as the lawmen admonished the greedy housewife by means of severe public shaming and the administering of a hefty fine.

Mr. Llewellyn, prominent manager of the local Harbor Gateway Savings & Loan, was contacted, posthaste; arriving swiftly to collect his incorrigible wife who had reduced herself to loud and abusive language directed toward all involved. It's suspected that she may have been intoxicated, as several shoppers reported that earlier Mrs. Llewelyn had been displaying peculiar behavior and mumbling incoherently. They also claimed that she was tracking unsteadily while negotiating the aisles of the popular emporium and that she'd lingered suspiciously in the liquor department.

Mr. Llewellyn took firm charge of his hysterical betrothed, hustling her into his waiting automobile; presumably to return her to their suburban domicile in order to administer a well-deserved tongue lashing.

This, sadly, was not Mrs. Llewellyn's first run-in with trouble. As you might recall, three months ago we reported another profoundly concerning incident where Mrs. Llewellyn was found to be incoherent after she drove her Studebaker through the plate glass window of Madame Sabrina's House of Coiffures; sending several of Madame's understandably mortified clientele - in various states of hairdressing - charging aimlessly about in fits of terror.

Mrs. Henry Barnstall, of 2819 Excelsior Ave., was found trapped and delirious under a still operating hairdryer which had been hopelessly wedged between the automobile's bumper and the wall of the sophisticated salon. She was extricated only after the prompt arrival of the fire department, and it's reported that Mrs. Barnstall suffered second degree burns to her scalp and irreparable damage to her always attractively styled hair.

It's been rumored that Mrs. Llewelyn has previously sought the counsel of a psychiatrist, but with obviously mixed results.

 

 

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