Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten facts from the unconscious. Police hesitated to use the stuff because it was fatal if mishandled and because evidence obtained by means of it was not directly admissible in court. In Birmingham, Ala., however, an alert district attorney cornered a gang of ax murderers by running down leads gained from scopolamine confessions. In Kansas City, an alert detective chief named Thomas Higgins heard about the Birmingham successes. Last fortnight he thanked his stars that he had. One morning Higgins' men were called to a room in a Kansas City apartment hotel where...
...Portland, Me.. James Morrill, 11, helped convict his mother of murder by telling how, after she had killed his father with an ax in their shack on Falmouth's Underwitted Road, she made her small son help trundle the body down to the cellar in his toy cart. "She asked me to help bury him," said James Morrill. "I threw on a few shovels of dirt, but I didn't feel like doing...
...around the house, found Ward's ax, ran on smashing flower pots, window panes, returned to the door and began chopping at it. Ward telephoned the Peekskill police who told him his house was out of their district, called the Cortlandt police who told him to try the state troopers at Hawthorne, 15 miles away, called the state troopers who sent a trooper. Ward got out his shotgun, loaded it, returned to the window. The naked man was still chopping at the door. Ward fired once over his head, the second time into the madman's body...
Last May, two Martinez, Calif. Mexicans named Anacleto Torres and Areo Cabrero, both section hands on the Southern Pacific Lines, set out to celebrate Memorial Day. In the course of the celebration, Anacleto shot Areo twice, bashed in his head with an ax, threw him into Carquinez Strait at the top of San Francisco Bay. Anacleto then confided the murder to two friends, who promptly informed the police. However, it proved to be one thing to arrest Anacleto and another to make him confess. For two weeks the moody mozo denied everything...
Unlike most historians, Du Bois candidly admits that he has an ax to grind, declares that "the mass of American writers have started out so to distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians who have written of Reconstruction, he brings charges of omission or bias against almost all, including the Beards, Claude Bowers, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and eleven school textbooks. In his bibliography Author Du Bois is even more exclusive, listing 28 standard works as anti-Negro, twelve as propaganda for the South...