Mr. and Mrs. Simon Condon are building a home on the corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Sixty-First Street, an activity oft interrupted by Simon’s destructive rampages. It would seem that Mrs. Condon holds the family purse-strings, which Mr. Condon deems unfair (and objects to strongly) in that the house-building money came from a $1,000 injury settlement, the result of his meat-packing accident at the Simon Maier Packing Company.
And so Simon attempted to murder his wife with a scythe, whereafter Mrs. Condon had no recourse but to call the local constable. Simon stated to the officer that he will indeed succeed in killing her if he doesn’t get the money.
Jailhouse investigation reveals Mr. Condon to be neither intoxicated nor insane.
