Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the caption of "Pranksters" in the Miscellany column, p. 30, issue of Aug. 13, you report the blowing up of one Jaspara Servia by employes of the Erie Railroad. In the first place, your caption is all wrong?"Assaulters" is the proper descriptive term. The inflation, per rectum, of persons employed in steel mills and railroad yards is not uncommon, as I have heard of many such assaults and have, on one occasion, treated such a case. Needless to say that my patient died?deliberately murdered by those you term "Pranksters," and from all the records I have...
...particular case of aggravated assault and battery (to which "with intent to kill" should be added), neither the victim nor his tormentors fared so well. The victim has been dead and buried quite a few years but the assaulters, to the best of my knowledge, are still serving time in the Western Penitentiary...
Unfortunately I could not get an autopsy on my case so I cannot say exactly the amount of internal damage that was done, and one of the reasons why I could not get an autopsy was because the whole affair was regarded as a "prank" rather than an "assault...
Present sponsor of the survey for which Mr. Doane worked is Langdon W. Post, Tenement House Commissioner of New York City's own New Deal Administration. When Commissioner Post heard of Mr. Doane's assault on the "economy of abundance," he said: "I suppose I'll have to take the responsibility for firing him." Out next day went Mr. Doane and 26 others. One of Mr. Doane's coworkers on the survey promptly pointed out that even in 1929 46,000,000 U. S. citizens had incomes of less than $426. hence could not be expected to buy two suits...
...Himalayas none has returned to tell the tale. Up to last week 13 persons were known to have perished in 13 years of trying. Last week the world heard of a 14th victim when three Indian porters arrived in Darjeeling with the story of one man's lone assault...