Word: snitchler
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...began last Tuesday, when it was dug up by a bulldozer a Hamilton, New York, after it had disappeared from Syracuse University. Frank Still, who was driving the bulldozer, took the bust to the home of Edgar J. Snitcher, on whose property he was working, and left it on Snitchler's front porch...
...Snitchler then set out to find the origin of the bust, which was undamaged except for a small scratch over the left one. The only clues were the inscription on the front of the statue, "Charles Tallinn 1810-1881," and the name of the clutter and the date of completion of the work on the back, "Prof. R. H. Park...
...Snitchler immediately suspected that the statue had arrived at his farm as the result of a college prank, with the culprits burying the statue on his property when it became...
...Snitchler turned to the wrong college. He called in experts from Colgate University. Colgate Associate Professor of Fine Arts Alfred R. Krakusian agreed with Snitcheler that the bust was typical of those which are wont to decorate college buildings. But Colgate Archivist Howard D. Williams dashed their hopes. He reported that there were no reports of either Tallman or Park at Colgate at the time the statue was carved...
...Before Snitchler could track down the origin of the statue further, it was stolen from his front porch on Thursday night...
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