LOUISVILLE, KY—In a wide-ranging dialog concerning the hardships and troublesome selections her household had confronted throughout the Nice Melancholy, native grandmother Mary Sipple casually talked about Tuesday that in August 1937 she took the lifetime of a person who refused to surrender a jar of mayonnaise. “She simply crushed his cranium with a rock and mentioned a prayer whereas he bled out,” mentioned Sipple’s granddaughter Sarah Inexperienced, explaining that her grandmother had managed to make the mayonnaise final till spring, proper across the time the useless man’s physique—which she had fastidiously weighed down and dumped into the Ohio River—washed up within the subsequent county. “Grandma advised me she was bored with having nothing to place between two slices of bread. So when she noticed the person along with his jar of Hellmann’s, she made him a proposition: He might both give her the mayonnaise, or he might die. I requested her how she felt about this now, and she or he simply mentioned sandwich spreads have been onerous to return by again then and the person had made his selection.” At press time, Sipple was reportedly itemizing on her fingers the varied different objects—eggs, flour, chewing gum, an Indian head nickel—she had killed individuals over throughout the worst financial disaster in American historical past.
