Word: necks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Councilmen rose, started to worm their way out through the crowd. A woman called Mr. Walmsley a dirty name. A man clouted him in the stomach. He hit back. A free-for-all fight started. One councilman was knocked almost unconscious by a blow on the neck. The crowd became a mob. Into the affray waded Police Captain Henry Melson, unpopular with the strikers for his "rough stuff." Up went the cry: "Get Melson!'' He was "gotten"- crushed to the floor, kicked, cuffed, pounded, pummeled. He drew his gun, fired shots along the floor, hit two legs...
...tried under Sections 272, 273, 275 of the U. S. Criminal Code. In the name of the people of the U. S. in January 1928 he was convicted of murder on the high seas, sentenced by U. S. District Judge Henry D. Clayton to "be hanged by the neck until dead-dead-dead." Vainly did Alderman carry his case to the Supreme Court of the U. S., to President Hoover for clemency...
...Justice of the Peace, acting as Coroner, held an inquest. The autopsy evidence was not offered in evidence. Witnesses who were close to Stultz before his fatal flight said they did not consider him drunk then. So the Coroner's decision was that Stultz died of a broken neck while doing a "falling leaf...
...announced Vice Consul Kao's suspension. The Kuomintang of America, branch of the potent political organization behind the Nanking government, demanded their recall to China for trial. The impression spread that certain death, from a headsman's sword cleaving into the back of her bent neck, awaited Mrs. Kao if she were deported. Although Minister Wu, taking pains to announce that decapitation was not China's penalty for opium smuggling,* requested deportation, in the absence of an extradition treaty between the U. S. and China it seemed legally impossible. Vice Consul Kao's suspension however removed some of the complications...
Last week celebrating graduates (presumably) tied a rope around his neck, yanked, and with Miltonic grandeur down he fell. So firm was his stance that his pedestal went over with him; so sturdy his physique that no portion of it broke...