Today -100: June 7, 1923: Of hushed phones, wolves, flying lions, and prosperous nipples

German police kill 6 at a demonstration against the cost of living in Leipzig.

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Vasili Komaroff, the Russian serial killer known as the Wolf of Moscow is on trial. He has confessed to 33 killings. He lured his victims to his house by offering to sell them a horse cheap and then killed them in a variety of ways. He just wants the trial over with: “I am 52, have had a good time and don’t want to live any longer.” He won’t.

A crowd breaks up a Ku Klux Klan meeting in Plainfield, New Jersey.

The famous French lion tamer “Marcel,” stranded by a Belgian railroad strike (I’ve been there), gets a mail plane to transport his 3 lions to Paris. I can only guess that this is the first time lions have flown. Three lions in a hot-air balloon would have been adorable.

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