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...year ago, the state of Louisiana tried to kill Willie Francis. The stuttering, roundheaded Negro boy had killed a man in a $4 holdup. But something went wrong with the state's portable electric chair. The current "only tickled" Willie. He got up, the only man on record to walk away from Louisiana's electric chair after the switch had been thrown...
Then, on April 20, 1945, a holdup man got into Reddish's cab, shoved a gun in his face. Reddish resisted, helped capture the gunman. For that Toronto's police commissioners gave him a silver tray inscribed: "For his courageous action . . . alertness and ingenuity...
Last week, when another holdup man tried the same thing, good citizen Reddish, 53, again resisted. This time the gunman got away. Behind him he left brave Alfred Reddish, shot through the head, dead...
What Others See. In best holdup style, Clerk Joseph Braunspiegel had just been ordered to the small toilet in the rear of the store, when two unsuspecting customers walked in. They were A. D. Voina, Ukrainian delegate to the United Nations, and Gregory Stadnik, a minor delegation adviser. The thugs promptly backed them up against a shelf full of Ritz crackers, Sun Crown prunes and Bernice Fruit Mix. One of the thugs fired the shot that was heard around the world; it caught Stadnik in the thigh bone...
Narrow Escape. Meanwhile, New York's police blotter showed that the world had barely missed an intensification of the crisis. On the night before the fateful holdup, one Joseph J. Hall set out on a nefarious enterprise with one Ronald E. Fisher. But when Hall realized that Fisher was trying to make him rob a church, he got religion and called the police: "We broke into a church, but I'm not going through with it." The house of God on East Fourth Street, thus providentially spared, was the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America...