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...Sunday sun had not yet risen last week when 110 lawmen fanned out through New York State to snuff out a conspiracy that in firepower, at least, exceeded Guy Fawkes' plot to blow up Britain's Parliament 361 years ago to the week...
...yielded frustratingly little evidence; it had not even been established whether Valerie's murderer was a man or a woman. Police theorized that the killer might have been familiar with the Percy home, and may have come there with the intention of seeking out and killing Valerie. Lawmen had a vast list of people to question. At week's end 150 had been interviewed-though none, apparently, were rated prime suspects...
...lawmen sent hundreds of rounds of small-arms fire crackling toward the tower deck. A few smashed into the faces on the clocks above Whitman, and most pinked ineffectually into the four-foot-high wall in front of him, kicking up puffs of dust. Ducking below the wall, Whitman began using narrow drainage slits in the wall as gunports. He proved almost impossible to hit, but he kept finding targets?to the north, where he wounded two students on their way to the Biology Building; to the east, where he nicked a girl sitting at a window in the Business...
...Lawmen plunged into the woods after the gunman. Moments later they brought out Aubrey James Norvell, 40, a pipe-smoking, unemployed hardware salesman from Memphis. Ultimately, Norvell, with no known involvement in racial issues, was charged with assault with intent to commit murder...
...many Florida lawmen cofidently predicted that a crime wave was sure to follow Indigent Clarence Gideon's famous victory in the U.S. Supreme Court, which earned for all American indigents the right to free trial counsel in felony cases. The decision applied retroactively to convicts who had been tried without lawyers, and, just as the lawmen expected, by 1965 Gideon v. Wainwright had freed more than 1,000 Florida prisoners. But predictions of a resultant crime wave, says the Florida Division of Corrections, have turned out to be all wrong...