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Jeremiah Harrigan, another BPD officer, said he had seen less of the alleged assault, but testified that Byrne had hit Trombly with an open hand and knocked him into the guardroom table, leaving the student “visibly shaken” and “on the verge of tears...
That night, while his guards dozed, Stryguine jumped out of bed as if heading for the bathroom, but leaped instead through a first-floor window. He fell twelve feet to the ground, got up unsteadily, lurched across the courtyard to a guardroom, crying, "Help, Burma army! Help, Burma army!" but the watching
...clock one morning, a Renault Frégate drew up before the main motor pool of the Paris police, and four Algerians jumped out. They killed the sentry outside, burst into the guardroom, shot three more policemen, then tossed homemade bombs into the depot's gas tanks. A few minutes later, the central police switchboard came alive with emergency calls from all over Paris. At Vincennes, a group of Algerians, attacking a munitions factory, killed one policeman and wounded another...
...guard inside the Eighth Army's aircraft maintenance center at Ascom City, 15 miles west of Seoul. He had broken into noncommissioned officers' quarters, pocketed a traveling clock, cigarette lighter, flashlight, two PX ration books, $6 worth of scrip. He was frog-marched to the guardroom, where a group of U.S. officers and enlisted men, irked by 20 burglaries in six weeks, decided to teach Kim a lesson...
...Soldiers! A new destiny awaits you," he cried. "March with me ... !" A whole regiment obeyed, and Louis (no soldier) marched them stoutly into a blind alley; immediately, loyal officers put the pint-sized pretender in the guardroom. French authorities bundled Louis off to the U.S., with a warning not to behave like a damn fool again. But after four years Louis was back in France, up to his old tricks. This time the authorities sentenced him to life imprisonment in the fortress...