Word: guns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 2) four ragged children from Manville's Poletown, two little Kolesars and two little Klementoviches, made an expedition to Farmer Hoffman's cornfield to snitch a few ears of corn for a "roast." As they crept through the tall corn rows a gun was fired close by. Johnny Kolesar, riddled with shot, died that evening. The two Klementoviches were also struck. Johnny's sister identified Craig Hoffman as "the man in the brown pants" who fired the shot. Hoffman was hustled off to jail, held without bail...
Three times the airplane dragged the "sleeve" target, at the end of a 2,000 ft. line, across the sky. Once it was not fired upon because both ship and target were too close to the sun. Once only two guns of the battery had firing data from the new electrical automatic range-finding apparatus. Spectators at the show-the 11th annual meeting of the Army Ordnance Association-later learned that the total of 200 rounds fired had made only a score of shrapnel tears in the red cloth finger. Previously they had seen two four-gun, multiple-mounted...
...gentlemen slipped out at night and removed the reveille cannon from its accustomed place. By some miraculous engineering, feat they hoisted it on top of the academic building and fired it off in the dead of night. It took a detachment of Engineers almost a week to lower the gun to its original position...
...Someone in the crowd shouted: "Over our dead bodies, then!" A day shift man shouldered his way through the crowd toward the mill gate. The crowd surged to hold him back. It was then, says Sheriff Adkins, that he started discharging, not his bullet pistol, but his tear gas gun. He and Marion, N. C., were unfamiliar with this weapon, about the size and shape of a large flashlight. He got a lot of tear gas in his own face. The crowd recoiled. An old man reached the Sheriff and belabored him with a stick. While grappling this assailant...
Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken, threw down his rifle and plunged into a wood. With solemn faces the other boys went back to town. Not until midnight did they gather up enough courage to tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night...