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Reserve. In Oxford, England, James Adams, lying in bed in a hotel reading, glanced up when the door opened, watched without comment as John Grady, wearing only a shirt, raced across the room and disappeared through the open window to his death, later explained at the inquest: "I just stayed in bed until the police came. It was nothing to do with...
...inquest Looby sat with bowed head and listened to Spinster Deady's trembling voice again. "Ralph was shot down like a dog because he parked his car," she cried. "You ruined my life when you shot down the man I loved. He didn't even have a chance to say, 'My God, forgive my sins.' " David Looby was charged with murder...
Misfortune halted Russ's plans for Russ Jr. almost before they had begun: the baby died from multiple brain hemorrhages at 18 months. An Army doctor testified at the inquest that he had heard an ugly little story from Russ's blonde wife that Tongay had been trying to teach the baby to float in the bathtub and had slapped him on the head because he did not obey. But Russ's wife testified that the baby was bruised in a fall down the stairs, and no charges were filed...
...days later, in the drab green patients' dayroom of the Naval Hospital, red-eyed mothers stood beside stiff-backed menfolk in their Sunday best for the grimmest inquest in local history. "You have seen Body No. 1?" the coroner asked one couple. "Yes." "Were his full names Raymond Peter Cross?" "Yes." "Was he aged eleven years?" "Yes." "Thank you. Will you sign here?" And so it went. Trained nurses led a stream of weeping witnesses in & out of the room. Alone and unnoticed at the back stood Driver Samson, twisting his cap round & round in his hands, speaking...
...baggage rack," Mary Chee repeated, weeping. "It make me feel bad all over again in my heart and in my head. But what can I do? I am a Navajo." The busload of Indians followed the police and the doctor who had performed the inquest out into the street when they left. But finally they got back into the bus. Kee Chee sat stiffly with the baby on the seat beside...