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...flashlight, unlimbered his six-gun and shot at them when they failed to stop. Although he has yet to hit a car (or driver), Earl keeps trying to slow them down. When some local toughs threatened to run him out of town, he grabbed the ringleader and promised to pistol-whip him the length of Main Street if he talked back to the law again...
...advancing line of men, women and children in a Warwick, R. I. fire station last week. As each approached, the captain applied the gun to an arm and fired a shot. The projectile, emerging with a muzzle velocity of 1,000 ft. per second (faster than a .45 pistol bullet), made a hole only 1 200 in. in diameter. If the crowd became too big, one of the captain's aides took up another of his six guns and went to work. In one day they shot 11,108 Rhode Islanders...
...hulk named Clarence Collins. One evening Joseph dined by candlelight with his wife at the fashionable Colonial Club. After dinner, at his suggestion, Wilma dropped her husband off downtown, drove on home by herself. When Selby got home his wife was dead, shot twice with a .22-cal. pistol...
...evening last month, Bertie Maughmer phoned police to report that her husband had been shot. Her story: he was teaching her how to use his .357 Magnum pistol when suddenly it sent a high-powered slug through his stomach. On the verge of death, Maughmer seemed to back her story. But nine days later he recovered enough to tell a different tale. After a violent argument, he said, she had waylaid him in the bedroom and shot him in a cold fury...
...standing over the man and fired the pistol three times." The jury returned a verdict of "homi cide by gunshot wounds," which left it up to Franklin County Prosecutor Charles Hansen. He said that he was dissatisfied with the discrepancy between the accounts of father and son. The case would go be fore a grand jury, where Crime Reporter Ted Link could be indicted for murder...