The world's champion practical joker is claimed to bo Ellis O. Jones. By handbills, posters, and intervie%vs he intimated that New York was about to bo the scene of a lingo social revolution. The time fixed was 2.30 p.m. on the following Sunday, and tho place wus Central Park. Sunday dawned grey and dripping. A hundred armed poiiecip.cn patrolled the park, with hundreds more and machiueguns lyiuy in ambush closa by.. Th*n the revolution- appeared. ■ It W3s Jones, solus, under an umbrella. Ho was seized. ;t:id medically examined. But he proved to I>3 rniite sane, and mnro'iv a man who liked hfe little joke. To mit down Jones's revolution is reported to bar* cost New York 7000 dollars!
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 121, 22 May 1920, Page 6
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