Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHN J. KNEZEVICH...
...were arrested, charged with murder. Governor Oliver Max Gardner sent in two companies of National Guardsmen, also an outside judge to investigate. Forty of the mill workers were arrested for riot and rebellion but released without bail. R. W. Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin in his speech at the quadruple funeral. The service was held in a scrub-oak grove. The four pine coffins, painted grey, lay on a low platform. Four girls led the hymn...
...another punctured body was hurled out. It was Guard R. A. Williams, already dead. At 9:00 p.m. the hundreds of soldiers and citizens surrounding the prison yard saw a third dead hostage crash to the ground outside Cellhouse No. 3. At 10 p.m. Guard John Shea staggered out bearing the body of Guard Abe Wiggins. Shea said that Danny Daniels had walked up to Wiggins at an appointed hour, grinned and shot him through the temple with his 48 calibre pistol. Then he had turned to Marvin Duncan, another captured guard, and said: "Prepare yourself. You're next...
...sent guests scurrying. Police found no bomber. . . . A bomb went off in the doorway of Broker Charles H. McCarthy's apartment, damaged furniture, tore out a wall . . . More bombs have exploded in Chicago in 1929 than in any other year-the year's 98th emptied in one John Coyle's saloon...
Because of the status of the Merchant Fleet Corp. as a body responsible primarily to the U. S. Shipping Board whose officers were its managers, Congress never until last week received an audit of the corporation's books. When that audit came, from Comptroller-General John Raymond McCarl, great was the shock to watchdogs of the public treasury...