Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Federal police caught the "Terror" in his underwear, preparing to retire with his bride. An officer stuck his head in the window and called: "Stick 'em up, Wilbur!" At that Wilbur grabbed a gun, fired through the window. The police returned with the opening rounds of a 140-shot fusillade. Mrs. Underbill got no more than a bad scare, but a beauty parlor operator in the next room was hit in the stomach, later died. Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck...
...taken part in the capture. Sheriff Cooksey indignantly replied that just before the raid a conservation crew had taken their boat across the river, had refused to return and do their duty. Commissioner Earle immediately mobilized a fleet of launches, equipped one with a machine gun and a one-pound cannon and prepared to recoup lost glory by catching the next pack of poachers...
...morning last week ornate Buckingham Palace guardsmen raised their chins at a sound louder than the blare of their brass band which was just thumping out a change of the guard. Through a low-hanging cloud, with his motor back firing like a machine gun, slithered Flying Officer F. Smith's plane, falling directly toward the Palace. To Airman Smith the royal standard fluttering on Buckingham's staff showed that the King-Emperor was in residence. By desperate maneuvers Flying Officer Smith was barely able to lift his plane over the Palace roof and miss the flagstaff...
...happen to be addicted to shots showing laboratory equipment, "From Headquarters" should be a paradise for you, as there is a perfectly fiendish collection of microscopes, test tubes, gun testers, and so forth...
...AMERICAN GUN MYSTERY-Ellery Queen-Stokes...