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...editorial continues: "Armed with a ventilator stick and an emergency axe, the Negro felled five passengers and three of the train crew...
...quite a half-truth. According to the story of Porter Smith whose testimony seems quite regular and reasonable, he did not strike a single passenger, but defended himself against passengers who sought to strike him. It is also important to note that, according to Smith, the emergency axe was only secured by him after the emergency box was broken open by some one of the passengers or the train crew, who took out the emergency sledge hammer, the same having been seen in the possession of one of the passengers...
...like to know who started all that talk. I'm sick and tired of it. I'd kick him around the town!" Equally extravagant are the tales about him. Once he stuck a pin in Frances Starr to get her to scream correctly. Once he took an axe to a set which Ina Claire had criticized. Once in Washington, he heard an audience wildly applauding at one of his shows, was bitterly vexed when he learned it was an ovation for President Wilson. Further evidence of his personal showmanship was his propensity for surrounding Character Belasco with...
...conductor interfered, Porter Smith knocked him down with a brake club. Passengers and trainmen joined in the fight which ranged up and down through three Pullmans and finally out to a private car on the end of the train. Armed with a ventilator stick and an emergency fire axe, the Negro felled five passengers and three of the crew as the train rushed through the night. At Thendara, 50 mi. north of Utica, N. Y., State troopers had to board the train, quell Porter Smith by threatening to use tear gas bombs. The train was delayed more than an hour...
Germans are executed with axe and chopping block by a brawny man bedight in evening clothes and black gloves. Seemingly Peter Kuerten's neck cannot escape the axe. But the Düsseldorf Court, unwilling to take the smallest chance of the nine death sentences being set aside by pardon or reprieve, wound up by sentencing the prisoner to toil 15 years at hard labor if not executed, deprived him of all his rights as a German citizen, ordered him to pay all the costs of his trial?one of the most expensive in German criminal history...