Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But the riot never reached full force. Yards cops arrived in time to put out a fire started with kerosene by one of the rioters (Sergeant Toomey pictured above).
When the bullet-riddled body of Philadelphia Policeman James T. Morrow was found in an empty lot back in 1936, his fellow officers set out to show the world that cop-killing never pays. First they exacted a confession from a suspect named Joseph Broderick. On second thought, they let...
This was handy, since Howard had just been killed by a detective and was in no shape to protest. But it was also difficult to prove. When the cops discovered that Howard's girl friend, a Mrs. Mary Morgan, was in a hospital, they hopefully put a watch outside...
Sheeler was a philosophical sort. He had grown up in an orphan asylum, had become a depression road-kid, and-before he found a job-a petty criminal. He served his time quietly, although his wife had obtained records which proved he had been at work in New York on...
Post Mortem. In Hamden, Conn., cops arrested Edward Bratkewitz, 21, for sending a hearse to his girl friend's house after she refused to mend their broken romance.