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...thick, ungracious tones interspersed with grunts. It was all so primitive, so fascinating, that no one noticed another Albanian, one Ziga Vuciterna, who arose pantherlike among the spectators, stealthily drew two revolvers, advanced upon Prisoner Bebe with a wild and sudden yell, and opened a murderous double fire of dum-dum bullets...
Eight ghastly dum-dum wounds sufficed to kill ferocious Alcibiade Bebe in the space of a few seconds. Even quicker was the rabbitlike dive of the judge under his bench. Jurymen fled so precipitously that one slipped and broke an arm. A stray dum-dum bullet wounded, probably fatally, the distinguished correspondent of the great Italian daily Gionale d' Italia, Signor Adriano Del Vecchio...
When Two-Gun-Man Ziga Vuciterna looked up from his work there was no other living soul to be seen in court. Wild-eyed but no longer violent the Dum-Dum Murderer reversed both his pistols in his hands, turning them upon himself, and stood in this peculiar attitude until bailiffs plucked up courage to come in and arrest him and the judge crawled out from under his bench...
...refused to make a speech the Rotarian next to her feared the girl was moody: "That comes from being too subjunctive and makes the situation tense." Alice thereupon recited a poem for them. Suddenly her entire audience scuttled and scampered off to escape the American Mercurial twins, Twaddle-dum and Twiddle-dee, now that you mencken it, one with H. L. M. embroidered on his collar, and the other, G. J. N. They conversed solemnly with Alice, and tried to entertain her. But Alice declared herself bored, and immediately the two little men vanished, leaving her to walk the Primrose...
...Assistant Edward Newbury '27 Another Assistant A. M. Shattuck '28 Train Porter G. S. Curtis '28 Jake of the Wrecking Crew E. A. Morrison '28 Bud of Same W. B. Dunne '27 Man with Lantern K. A. Perry '28 Ornery-Faced Policeman G. H. Humphrey '25 Young Dum H. S. Smith '25 A Sailor Edward Newbury '27 Another Sailor A. M. Shattuck '28 Opera Goer E. J. Bliss '26 Second Opera Goer Harriet Huntress Third Opera Goer Miss Isaacs Second Young Man with Same G. B. Bingham '28 Third Young Men with Same H. M. Fox '28 A Girl Marie...