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Cowboys & Indians. But Grandstaff was also a habitual musician. In the penitentiary library, he came across a book called Big Spring: the Casual Biography of a Prairie Town-a folksy history by Big Spring (Texas) Druggist Shine Philips. From his piano-selling days, Grandstaff remembered Big Spring: a prairie town of 20,000 which had sprung up around a spring where buffaloes, Indians, cowboys and finally the Texas and Pacific R.R. had come for water. He decided to write some music about Big Spring...
Cleveland Druggist Sanford Newman and his wife had planned the cruise as their first real vacation in 15 years. They bought new clothes, left their two children at home and boarded the Canada Steamship Lines' Noronic (6,905 tons), queen of the company's Great Lakes fleet, for her last trip this year to the Thousand Islands. When the ship tied up at Toronto's Pier 9 for an overnight stop, the Newmans went ashore for a movie, found the theaters jammed, came back to the ship to play gin rummy in the lounge...
...first time. "Excuse me, sir," he said quietly, and tried to brush past. The insurance man stood motionless. Without another word, Unruh shot him, first in the head, then in the body. He walked into the store and mounted the stairs to Cohen's apartment, where the druggist's family was frantically hunting hiding places...
Cohen's wife ran into a closet. Unruh fired twice through the door, then pulled it open and shot her through the head. He cornered the druggist's 63-year-old mother in another room, and killed her. He trapped Cohen outside on a roof and shot him; the druggist fell to the pavement and the killer aimed, fired, hit him again...
...tear-jerker,' " continued Doyle, "is a paragraph about 'Marty,' who had difficulties in school, found Latin and algebra 'dull,' quit school . . . 'drifted from one dead-end job to another,' fell in with evil companions, and finally used a gun on a druggist during a holdup. As he awaited sentence, one of his former teachers reflected: 'I was a big help to that boy. I taught him Tennyson and compound verbs...