Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complicated public image of Bernhard Goetz, New York City's "subway vigilante," seems to be shifting. The initial perception of him as a mild-mannered Clark Kent who changed into an intrepid punk stopper was certified last January when a grand jury refused to indict the weedy, self- employed engineer for attempted murder. But lately Goetz's righteous aura has been smudged by new revelations, principally that he admitted firing a bullet into one of his four victims with the words "You don't look so bad. Here's another...
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced last week that on the basis of new information, the case against Goetz will be reopened. Investigators said they now had an additional witness. Morgenthau refused to identify the witness, but there was speculation that the individual was a passenger on the IRT subway car last December when Goetz, 37, opened fire on four teenagers he claims had hassled him and hustled him for money. A number of other passengers testified before the original grand jury, which indicted Goetz only for illegal possession of a handgun. Acting State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane ruled...
...inflexible rule of journalese is that American assassins must have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman. This courtesy of a resonant three-part moniker is also applied to other dangerous folk. This is why the "subway vigilante" is "Bernhard Hugo Goetz" to many journalists who consider him a monster, and just plain "Bernhard Goetz" to almost everyone else. Another rule of the language is that euphemisms for "fat" are understood too quickly by the public and are therefore in constant need of replacement. "Jolly," "Rubenesque" and the like have long been abandoned...
...look so bad," said the gunman to one of the four youths who had accosted him. "Here's another." With those chilling words, New York City's acclaimed "subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz fired another shot at Darrell Cabey, 19. Goetz had already wounded the young man's three friends, who lay bleeding on the floor of the subway car. When he saw Cabey with no blood on him, he decided to shoot again. These details of the Dec. 22 incident were made public last week in a report written by police in Concord, N.H., where Goetz surrendered last New Year...
...January, after reading the report and watching a video-taped interview Goetz gave to Concord detectives, a New York grand jury decided not to indict him on the four attempted-murder charges sought by the Manhattan D.A. The jury charged Goetz only with illegal weapons possession. At week's end Troy Canty, one of Goetz's victims, decided to testify against the gunman, without immunity from prosecution. His testimony could constitute "new information," which would be grounds for resubmitting the case to a second grand jury...