Word: ambusher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concealing themselves in motor trucks, tube stations and in every ambush which ingenuity could devise, several hundred London bobbies lay in wait one night for several thousand English unemployed...
...confusion of reports that followed the press of Italy was unanimous in its condemnation of Toscanini. The maestro's friends insisted that the attack was a carefully-planned ambush. A cautious French press made no mention of the incident. Carabinieri. soldiers, detectives watched the Toscanini house in Milan; he was a prisoner; his passport was withdrawn; he would be disciplined, it was said, by Dictator Mussolini. Last week his passport was returned and it was reported that he had been guarded only because civil authorities feared further incidents...
After investigating the fatal ambush for four days, a grand jury indicted Chief Cusick, his assistant and the city clerk of Evarts for murder. Arrested and taken before Col. Carrell, Chief Cusick declared: "This is all funny to me. I was in Evarts when the shooting took place and have 50 witnesses to prove...
These words were hardly out of Sheriff Blair's mouth before three carloads of his men were ambushed from behind piles of railroad ties along the road out of Evarts. Under a rain of lead two deputy sheriffs dropped dead, two others fell severely wounded. A commissary clerk was also killed. Though the deputies sprayed the ambush with their automatic rifles, they got only one of the 100 attackers. Sheriff Blair was alarmed. No longer confident that he could handle "this thing'' alone, he telephoned to Governor Flem Sampson at Frankfort for aid. Not until a petition...
Responsibility for Harlan County's labor war was hard to fix. Governor Sampson blamed everything on "Reds and Communists," though Col. Carrell later said he could find no evidence to support this theory. Sheriff Blair accused disgruntled "left wing" union miners for the fatal ambush. Evarts' Chief of Police Asa Cusick insisted the deputy sheriffs guarding the mines were really to blame. The mine operators ingenuously pointed to "adverse freight rates" as the ultimate cause of trouble...