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...More flesh and a fire bomb's fragments were spotted at a suburban Flint dry-cleaning shop mysteriously burned out the same evening; a passerby said he saw flames in the shop, noticed two men running, heard screams inside. Police decided that Kierdorf was accidentally burned during an arson job, taken home for first aid, finally dumped at the hospital. All this they put to Patient Kierdorf, who had already been told that he had no chance for life. From Kierdorf came a huskily whispered obscenity -no more. A few hours later he died...
Critical Ignition. In Milwaukee, when a court wanted to know why Lester J. Schneider had obtained 15 delays of his trial for arson, Schneider's attorney explained that his client had on separate occasions been hit by a train, operated on for appendicitis, hospitalized also for a kidney ailment, a sprained ankle, and injuries resulting from a fall from the roof of a barn...
With Schoolfield himself looking on unblinkingly from a balcony seat, the legislators listened to 25 separate counts of improper judicial conduct during the judge's ten years on the bench. Samples: taking bribes; quashing indictments against 13 Teamster goons accused of dynamiting and arson (TIME, Dec. 30); illegally "retiring" hundreds of felony cases, putting the defendants in his power by letting them out of jail but keeping them subject to prosecution. By overwhelming votes, the house adopted 24 of the 25 counts, concluded that "no Tennessean should be forced to [stand trial] before such a judge." Next step...
With this neatly executed bit of arson, the EOKA men marked a switch from a policy of passive resistance (TIME, March 17) to a nonshooting campaign of selected sabotage. All week long bombs went off. A pump house supplying water to a British camp was blown up; one midnight a building stocked with shiny new government lottery machines suddenly belched smoke; Cypriots crowded the streets to watch a garage filled with government farm machinery light up the sky. Troops, police and firemen were kept running, but their only captures were 220 sticks of dynamite found hidden under a truckload...
...Counsel Schwartz behaved as if accepting $100 honorariums was a crime ranking close to arson. He hectored Doerfer so unmercifully that the American Civil Liberties Union protested and the Washington Post and Times Herald, no friend of the Eisenhower Administration, rapped Schwartz's brass knuckles...