Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatred of a young army recruit for his martinet captain in the dusty Pacific town garrison of Portoviejo caused the rioting that put Ecuador under martial law and killed at least 37 people...
Reprimanded by his commanding officer, Draftee José García Macías, 20, shot at him four times. When the officer Captain Galo Quevedo dropped to the ground, García concluded he had killed the captain and committed suicide. The officer arose unharmed. But next day when Quevedo went to García's funeral, the mourners turned into a mob chased him to the officers' club, besieged him with guns handed them by draftees. After an eight-hour battle, Quevedo staggered out, clothes aflame. He was shot down and his body was dragged through...
...trial, Captain Proctor, a police ballistics expert, would go no farther than to say of the death bullet: "My opinion is that it is consistent with being fired by that (Sacco's) pistol." In a subsequent affidavit, Proctor stated: "At no time was I able to find any evidence whatever which tended to convince me that the particular model bullet found in Berardelli's body, which came from a Colt Automatic pistol, which I think was numbered 3 and had some other exhibit number, came from Sacco's pistol, and I so informed the District Attorney and his assistant before...
Edmund M. Morgan, Professor of Evidence at the Harvard Law School, summed up the testimony given by the two police ballistics experts concerning Sacco's pistol as follows: "Had Captain Proctor and Van Amburgh constituted the jury with the data then in their possession and with the state of mind disclosed in the record, they must have returned a verdict for the defendants upon this issue...
Miss Lucy Busselle of Everett House was awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, given to the member of the graduating class who, "during her whole course by her scholarship, conduct and character has given evidence of the greatest promise...