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Late one night last May, the three conspirators began collecting ducks. They had put 17 ducks into pasteboard cartons when suddenly a policeman interrupted. He took Lopez, Newrocky and Mrs. Hanush off to jail...
...Conspirators. After a while, Lopez came to know another park visitor who liked to feed the ducks, an elderly, Czechoslovakian-born widow named Venceslava Hanush. When Mrs. Hanush heard people at the park say that the sick or crippled ducks were going to be fed to animals at the city zoo, Lopez decided to take direct action. An old acquaintance who owns a ranch in Southern California promised to provide a home for the ducks. Lopez and Mrs. Hanush worked up a plan to gather up young or ailing ducks and transport them to the ranch. To help carry...
...Interests of Justice. Bewildered by the legal proceedings against her, humiliated by the gibes of other park habitues, Mrs. Hanush sank into despair. On the day set for the trial, she put on her best clothes, left a pan of birdseed on her hotel windowsill, and took a bus to San Francisco. She registered at a hotel, and from there she wrote a letter to Lopez. "Thinking about that terrible trial," she wrote, "I could not go on any more. Please continue your noble work. You know as we all know that we are innocent in the whole incident." Then...
...free man again, Raymond Lopez walked to MacArthur Park, wiped off a bench and sat down. Wearily, sorrowfully, he spoke of his departed friend Mrs. Hanush. "What is wrong," he asked, "with helping things to live...
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