Insurance Collected, "Dead" Man is Alive

1922

CLARION, Pa. — A. W. Weed, formerly an "oil shooter" of Oklahoma, today told how he wandered about the country for nearly two years, his mind a temporary blank, following an explosion of a magazine of the Osage Torpedo company at Pawhuska, Okla., where he was employed. Weed, whose wife collected $6,000 insurance in the belief that he was blown to atoms, related his experiences from the time he found himself lying beside a small stream following the explosion, until he was arrested and lodged in jail here for driving an automobile without a license.

—The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, Aug. 26, 1922, p. 2.