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...might be kidnapped and palmed off as Mrs. Bannister's. The boys shot and killed Lake, chased his naked woman into the snow, clubbed her to death, left her 20-month-old son Jackie floundering in the snow beside her, set fire to the cabin. Jackie shortly froze to death. The Bannister boys kidnapped Lake's six-month-old daughter Betty Ann. Arthur's idea of destroying the evidence was to break his .22 rifle over the railway track and throw it into the snow. The boys' tracks led over the river and through the woods...
...catastrophe was the direct result of the prolonged and severe cold spell which froze the pipes on the top floor. The water which at first stood two inches deep on the floor of the upper rooms, was soon mopped up, but the seepage continued through the ceilings and walls down to the ground floor, loosening plaster and wallpaper...
When this was reported to President Macrae, his face froze behind his whiskers. He called to his office the proud three, Merton S. Yewdale, editor-in-chief for ten years, and his two associate editors, Louise T. Nicholl and Samuel Middlebrook, told them that their refusal of the Christmas bonus was evidence of dissatisfaction and disloyalty, told them to accept or resign. With one voice the three resigned...
...small, swart Napoleonic figure wrapped in a greatcoat. The man mounted, with assistance, the tailboard of a truck, took a paper from his pocket. Two shivering policemen braced their shoulders, put bugles to their chapped lips, sounded assembly. Half way through the call one bugle gave a despairing wail, froze tight. Provision men came running from all sides to see the show. The man in the greatcoat began to read in an enormous voice from the paper in his hands...
...nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went out, that at night they slept without fire, with only scraps of blankets for covers. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes had plenty of heat, plenty of covers. The Negroes say their feet froze because it was wintry co!d. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes stopped circulation in their feet when they padded their leg irons with rags and strings...