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Show 105 On the afternoon of the day Veronica Stulak married Emil Hrenko, Hugo Kerner had to transfer a prisoner from the Canaan jail to the Pittsburgh lock-up. The prisoner had shot another man in the leg, in the heat of a barroom argument about the relative merits of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, both of whom were running for the presidency. Following the shooting in a Pittsburgh saloon, the assailant hopped a streetcar bound for Canaan, P.A. in full view of dozens of witnesses. Hugo met the streetcar at the Canaan stop, arrested the fugitive, and escorted the man, who had in the meantime sobered into meekness, to the Canaan jail. After a telephone call to the Pittsburgh police, Hugo sent home a message that he'd be detained on police business for a couple of hours, and would have to miss the Stulak wedding reception. Since Maggie Rose didn't want to go without her husband and Kathleen had to work at the nickelodeon, Karl was the only member of the Kerner family getting cleaned up at four o'clock on the afternoon of October twelfth. Karl poured hot water from the kettle into the basin and set it on a shelf next to the kitchen sink. Studying his face in the mirror above the shelf, he lathered his father's shaving brush against the soap in his father's shaving mug, and applied the foam to a suggestion |