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Unknown to anyone a shell with a misprimed fuse was inserted into one of the guns. As the unfortunate gunner pulled his lanyard not only the propelling charge but the high explosive shell charge detonated. The gun burst, killing seven men and wounding eleven others, all skilled in the handling of shells and explosives...
...Cathedral, said that he had been a Communist for several years, had been bribed with money received from Bolsheviki to permit one Vasco to place bombs on the roof of the Cathedral and had, on the fatal day, signaled when the building was full, whereupon Vasco had fired the fuse to the bombs. One Friedmann, pleading not guilty, admitted that he was a Communist, that he knew of the plans to blow up the Cathedral, but called the attempt "a stupid thing which could not have had anything like a practical result." The Government charged that the wife...
...present has grown much too blase to do anything but yawn when confronted with the wonders of science. Even hideous gases and death-dealing ultra-what rays have lost their power to amuse us. We smile at chemistry, and, save when we experiment with the fuse-box in the dark, ignore the extraordinary possibilities of electricity. Complex machinery is to us as an open primer, and we positively gape when someone mentions advanced physics...
...philosophy. The meaning and genesis of law; III. The growth of law and the methods of judging; IV. The function and ends of law; V. Function and ends continued. The conclusion is for "the partisans of an inflexible logic" and "the levelers of all rule and all precedent" to fuse their warring theories into one new instrument of social control...
When it was discovered that a similar impromptu call had been paid at the Rumanian Legation, where five sticks of dynamite and a fuse were discovered in a crack of the doorstep, the Government ordered a close watch to be kept on all Legations and reinforced the police by two companies of infantry...