Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Boston butcher's son, Jesse Pomeroy began a life of brief but terrible crime at 13, when he was sent to a reform school for torturing little children. Upon his release a little boy was cruelly murdered, then a little girl. On April 22, 1874 Horace Miller, 10, was found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison...
...industry, and many a wild horse, caught, corralled, transported and slaughter-housed, is packed into cans and sold as foodstuff. In this country, to be sure, only well-to-do dogs eat horsemeat. On the Continent, poor people consume it. In French and Belgian villages are many equine butcher shops where only horse meat is sold. A stuffed horse head hangs over the doorway, to distinguish them from "chacuteries" (pork shops) where a pig's head holds the place of honor. Nor is horse meat particularly unpalatable. A little tough, perhaps, and not very tasty, yet between a relatively...
...messenger to heaven. Looking about him, Ivan Skripnik chose young Gregory Romashevsky to act as this messenger. Romashevsky blanched but accepted, prepared to die. He lay down on the table in the mean wooden house that serves the Johnists for a church. By his head was laid an old butcher knife, carefully sharpened...
...second horse to stamp in was Minotaur. Dr. Freeland had passed him only 100 yds. before the finish line. One hour and a few minutes before the race Minotaur was owned by Charles Graffagnini, a New Orleans butcher. Restaurateurs habitually buy from butchers. One hour before the race, Chicago Restaurateur John R. Thompson Jr. bought Minotaur...
...Died. Butcher Matthias Sticz of Kecskemet, Hungary, 506 Ibs., "fattest man in Europe"; by suicide; in Kecskemet. He shot himself because he could no longer afford beef in the quantity (two roasts) which he required at breakfast...