Word: assassin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assassin Ratchitch, whom no government deputy had seized from behind, put his fifth bullet with crack marksmanship into the stomach of Stefan Raditch, who crumpled as though felled...
...leader of the opposition. "I'm going to shoot Raditch," he cried. "I'll shoot anyone who tries to stop me!" Instantly four ranking officials of the Croat Peasant Party rushed to fling themselves between the pistol and their leader. The secretary of the party stopped the assassin's first bullet. The vice president of the party, a popular Croatian author, took the second. The third and fourth were stopped with no less honor and heroism by M. Josip Grandja and M. Paul Raditch, nephew of Stefan, who had been farthest from the carnage when it began...
Poorly aimed, the dagger merely pinked his Highness' chauffeur. Pouncing police not only collared would-be assassin Meika but efficiently forced down his throat a successful antidote to the poison he had taken. Today he is in Tokyo, alive and awaiting justice...
...fashion that no man could say with certainty in whose hands the city actually lay. It had previously been evacuated (TIME, June 11) by the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who retired to Mukden, Manchuria, and lay there, last week, nigh to death from wounds inflicted by an assassin's bomb...
Died. William Alexander Guerry, 66, Bishop of the South Carolina Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church; shot, for no known reason, by the Rev. J. H. Woodward, retired clergyman in his diocese. Assassin Woodward committed suicide immediately after firing at the bishop...