Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springfield, Mass., Charles Smith, 21, after purchasing five shotgun shells in a sport store, asked to see some shotguns. The clerk showed him one and then went down to the basement. Charles Smith put a shell in the gun, blew his own head off. A note in his pocket said: "Thanks a lot for the gun. I couldn't afford...
Nervousness and hurry, factors that every killer must cope with, are responsible for absurd mistakes. Dr. Magrath told of a man who in attempting to make the shot-gun murder of his wife appear a suicide, fastened a string to the trigger guard of the weapon instead of to the trigger itself...
...Slim" Hoover, the brave Arizona sheriff of a Wild Western melodrama, vintage 1907. Revived last week, The Round-Up could at least be sure that it was the noisiest play on Broadway. Its cast includes seven broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving a victorious U. S. flag over the smoke-swathed battleground from a papier mache rock. To the enduring credit of the cast and its producers, who intend to present...
...saxophone player (William Collier Jr.) from proposing marriage. Complication is injected when the band leader (Jack Oakie), long a friend of Collier, tries to break up the union. Action is kept at a swift pace by lust, robbery, off-stage murder and, finally, the shooting of Oakie by a gun-toting habitue of the dance hall (George Raft). Good shot: Miss Hopkins, eyes half shut, singing "St. Louis Blues'' while the ten-centers wiggle according to dance hall form...
...methods used by the great fiction hero Sherlock Holmes, that perhaps saved the life of an innocent woman, were described by Dr. Magrath. During a drinking party in the town of Mansfield, a man by the name of Cobb was found mortally wounded from the discharge of a shot-gun in his cellar. Cobb did not die at once, but lived to write in a legible hand "Emily did it," on the back of an envelop which he had taken from his pocket. His wife, Emily Cobb, was found unconscious in the kitchen with blood-stains on her dress. Reconstructing...