Word: ambusher
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...Darien, Ga., an early morning last week R. J. Anderson, policeman, gruffly questioned two Negroes fussing near the bank. They shot at him, wounded him, ran and hid in the neighboring swamps. Police Chief Robert L. Freeman led a posse to capture the recreants. The two shot from ambush, killed Chief Freeman, wounded two others. The hunters caught George Grant, 40, locked him in jail. Georgia is restive these days. So Col. Roy Neal of the Georgia National Guard hastened to Darien with 25 men and machine guns. Armed townsmen tramped past the machine guns, grim and unmolested, entered Darien...
...days later, 200 miles away near Douglas, Ariz., a band of 20 Apaches were caught "rustling" cattle. They battled white ranchers from ambush. Five Apaches were killed, one rancher was wounded...
These men, he declared, are often murderous; impelled by the high prices obtainable for ducks and geese, they will even kill wardens from ambush. Chief Redington's suggestions prompted the conference to send a resolution to Congress asking that game wardens be protected as are federal police...
When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush-a lethal chamber. He smashed the single lamp, deluded his captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved...
Quite as brave as ex-Monk Freyden-berg was Pierre Pigeaire, a correspondent for the United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...