A MODERN JOUST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 117, 31 January 1940, Page 6

A MODERN JOUST

KNIGHTS STAND UP THE LADY STAYS IMPARTIAL In olden days—romantic days, according to legends and Hollywood— noble knights fought with sword and shield for the: favour of a fair lady, says the Chicago Tribune. Recently in Chicago two modern knighis fought over a lady-—fair, red-headed, beautiful. and young. They didn't bother with swords or shields. The swains were Robert Savvey. 20 years old, and Leroy Landwehv, 19, friends and room-mates at (5842 Yale Avenue. For several weeks the two bad cultivated a friendship with Miss Eldean Taylor, aged 18, a former Parker High School student. Miss Taylor, so she told the Englewood police, was '"rather impartial." When one or the other ayouUl ask her which one she liked the better, she always replied: "I like you both the same." Friends Sarvey and Land well r were convinced she couldn't have both the saine. They called her at her home on Lggleston Avenue one night, and asked her to choose the one she really liked the more. "But I like you both the same," she said. And so the two, like knights of old, waged battle. They were tossing punches at each other Avith great abandon when Miss Taylor's stepfather, Raymond Lane, 3), an elevator operator, came downstairs. "Shoo, boys, stop it," he urged.' The boys kept on punching, Between rounds Landwehr handed a revolver to Lane, .with a plea which Lane later said sounded like: "Shoot him." Sarvey heard it, too, and rushed at Lane. Startled, Lane fired a shot low, and then fired again a little higher. Sarvey fell with a cry of anguish The battle was over, and wher. the poliice came they found Miss Taylor sobbing: "Robert's dying." But at the Englewood police station, where Lieut. J>nrt M'oran que'tionert the girl, her stepfather and landwehr, all were,assured that the. worst that had happened, t,p Sarvey was that he wouldn't be able to sit (Continued nt foot of ne\*; coht:n.:)

lown in comfort for quite a while. The futility of the joust seemed to have been demonstrated later when Miss Taylor was asked which of the two she liked better now. " "I still like them both the same," she said.