Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniels that the store was closed, but that Daniels opened the door anyway-and "I heard a shot." Morrisroe, Crocker said, "made a break like he was going for the door.". Crocker solemnly avowed that in Daniels' right hand "there was a bright, shiny object that resembled a knife," while Father Morrisroe had something in his right hand that he "took to be a pistol. I saw a round object like a gun barrel." Two defense witnesses, a county construction employee and a stockyard worker, added that they later saw two Negroes leaning over the bleeding bodies "pickin...
...Outrage." Nevertheless, Prosecutor Gamble in his summation twice referred to "that knife." Assistant Prosecutor Perdue spoke of Daniels' "attempting to force his way in" and to Morrisroe's "coming forward behind Mr. Daniels." Thus, while arguing unconvincingly for conviction, the prosecution blandly conceded the defense's two vital arguments: that the victims 1) had weapons, and 2) were advancing on Coleman...
Merchant Seaman Gerald Gormley was practically dead on arrival at Detroit's Receiving Hospital. While fighting off street-corner hoods, he had been stabbed in the back, and the knife blade had slit right through his descending aorta, the main artery that carries blood to the trunk and legs. He was losing blood so fast that his heart stopped beating while he was on the operating table. Though surgeons managed to sew up the aorta and got his heart pumping once more, seven months passed before Gormley left the hospital...
...legs kept "going to sleep." His blood pressure had soared to 240/140. Doctors could feel no pulse in his legs. Chief Surgeon Melvin Newman and his assistants at N.J.H. figured that their patient was suffering from a partial obstruction of his descending aorta- scar tissue, perhaps, from his knife wound...
After less than two hours of deliberation, Thomas L. Coleman, 55, a highway engineer and part-time sheriff, was found innocent of a manslaughter charge on a plea of self-defense. The defense claimed that young Daniels was armed with a knife when Coleman shot him with a .12 gauge automatic shot-run last August 20. Prosecution witnesses denied that Daniels was armed...