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Though it occurred only about 15 years ago, the Great Train Robbery belongs to another age. In accordance with longstanding though sadly eroding British tradition, the gang did not use firearms. Their basic field weapon was the cosh or blackjack. For other occasions the arsenal included ax handles, umbrellas reinforced with iron rods, and a gadget that would spray a blinding cloud of flour and pepper from compressed air cylinders...
...brought charges by J. Wallace LaPrade, head of the besieged New York field office, that the FBI was still conducting the same type of illegal break-in practices under Bell which drove a grand jury to indict Gray and his two aides. LaPrade himself is open to charges of ax-grinding: though unindicted, he was a major target in the FBI probe, and his refusal to tender a requested resignation brought his prompt removal as head of the New York office. In any case, his accusations warrant a thorough airing, and they compel the American people to withhold a hearty...
...good reason: his father, Vernon, 42, an insurance salesman, often beat Gregory with belts, garden hoses and golf clubs. His mother, Barbara, 37, was also strict and harsh. Some two months after his departure, on the night of July 24, 1975, Gregory returned home-with a knife and an ax. He killed his parents and stuffed their bodies into their bedroom closet. Last week Shaddy was a free man. And soon, maybe, a richer man. Gregory and his brother, Scott, will split their parents' estate, which is estimated to be upwards...
...January, and twelve $50,000 coal trucks were destroyed. State police arrested 194 men, mostly miners from Indiana's U.M.W. District 11. Last week any visitor was met by at least three AR-15-armed guards. In his office, which still has holes in the wall from the ax attack of the U.M.W. toughs, B&M Owner Paul Teegarden kept a 9-mm Smith & Wesson automatic pistol on his desk and a 12-gauge shotgun on the wall. Said Teegarden, who lived in his office from the beginning of the strike: "If they come again they...
Melling: "No! Just keep down and put your guns away!" To Cox: "If they come up the steps, mate, we've had it." Melling reached up and grabbed a fire ax to have something in his hand...