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Next day he was back, and 16 more victims lay dead in Coverdale and the adjoining hamlet of Horsehouses. Jim was shoeing a pony when the word came, but with 400 of his countrymen he set out again. Down the line of the River Ure, from Aysgarth to Leyburn, the Dalesmen tracked their quarry. Then, on a lonely stretch of track near Bolton Castle, Constable Charles Jackson laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Killer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...farmhouses from the Pennine Hills to the seven streams that flow eastward to the Humber, the herders celebrated the end of a ten-day nightmare. But at Leyburn Police Headquarters none liked to look too closely at the body of the huge, tawny Alsatian sheepdog that had wrought the havoc; for in that section of Yorkshire sheep are a livelihood, and no Dalesman cares to admit that his dog has gotten the taste for sheep's blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Killer | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Another important version of the Detroit debacle was given by Alfred P. Leyburn, chief national bank examiner in the Detroit area. His points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Senate Revelations 7:2 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Examiner Leyburn: "So's that bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Senate Revelations 7:2 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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