Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daviess County, Hunter Clouse heard that Jeff Rowland was going to "cut his heart out." When Hunter Clouse discovered Jeff Rowland sharpening a long knife his suspicions became conviction. He shot and killed Jeff Rowland...
...also donated an antique inkwell and an ivory pen-knife, both relies of Woodberry. These he originally presented to his poet friend many years ago. The latter, in his turn, handed them down to his nephew, C. D. Woodberry '99, who has returned them, by way of Mr. Flaggler, to the Woodberry collection in the Library...
...Augustin Justo with clean hands until the Kennedys were smoked out. ''Trivial and ridiculous fiasco!'' he growled-and called for more troops. Trivial (but not entirely ridiculous) Argentina's latest "revolution" was indeed. With some 100 followers the Kennedy brothers, famed fighters with pistol & knife, set out from their ranch one night and slipped into La Paz. In the police station they found 22 sleeping policemen. Eighteen surrendered without a struggle. The chief and three others they shot. They then stole $40 from the police safe, took the electric light plant and telegraph office, began...
...five unexploded bombs were removed, at the end of a long pole, to a quarry near Easton. Charles V. Weaver, an explosive expert from the du Pont works in Wilmington, undertook the risky business of opening them to see what they were made of. With a knife at the end of a pole he undid one package, set to work on another, putting a stone on the top while he cut away
...yards on either side of the Widow. Gaping butchers' boys peered over policemen's shoulders to see the tiny figure descend from a horse-drawn van. refuse the traditional cigar and glass of rum. There was a huddle round the base of the guillotine, then the knife crashed down as a church bell struck seven...