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Skeptical newsmen revisited the apartment and discovered that they could find no sign of the shotgun shell in the hallway outside the front door; that the bullet-riddled door led to a bedroom, not to the bathroom; and that the doorjamb "holes" were actually nail heads. Headlined the rival Sun-Times: "Those Bullet Holes Aren't." Hanrahan disclaimed responsibility for the Tribune captions ("We're not editors"), but Tribune Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick said that they came from material provided by the police and by Hanrahan's office. Late last week, at the request of black and white...
Police could find no bullet marks in the recently cemented sidewalk to indicate that Gilligan had fired at Powell as he lay prone. One bullet was found in Powell's body, one passed through it, the third lodged in a doorjamb of the building. When one youth was confronted by evidence of this shot, which had taken an upward course, he recanted his testimony that Gilligan had fired at the fallen Powell, admitted that he had not even seen the shooting at all. Other youngsters conceded that a truck and spectators blocked their views...
Dave Weyer neglected nothing. He found not three shot patterns, but four: one in the bathroom doorjamb and the bathroom itself, a second in the living-room ceiling, a third in the couch, the fourth in the pine-paneled hall. Then a defense pathologist discovered bits of flesh on the ceiling, found fragments of Violet's jacket in the gaping hole in the couch. If Violet shot her husband-as she insisted-when he was on the couch, how account for the human tissue on the ceiling and Violet's jacket threads in the couch...
...children, as their roofs were blown away. Some houses were wrecked into splinters. One house was blown 700 feet. Mrs. Dorothy Lucas and her 18-month-old baby, Diana, were ripped out of their frame house, blown 500 feet to death, their bodies stripped of clothing. Doorjamb of the Lucas house, still bearing the small metal numerals of the address, was torn from the rest of the wreckage, jammed upright in the ground near Mrs. Lucas, like a grave marker...
...Premier. Access to the Mediterranean Sea is still a preoccupation with all Russian statesmen, and an offer of joint control of the Dardanelles might cause Premier Stalin to forget his promise to Turkey. In the meantime, in Ankara, Franz von Papen already had a jimmy in the doorjamb...