Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demonstration. In Boise, Idaho, Don Williams asked to see a pistol in a pawnshop window, asked for some shells, calmly loaded it, held up the place, made off with...
...side of the road, where its two passengers lay groaning. A few passers-by ran up to them. The sedan braked to a stop farther down the road and the driver climbed out and walked back. Taking a hasty glance at the scene, he drew a pistol, ordered the bystanders back and shot the two injured people to death. Then he walked back to his car and drove on. The witnesses were so stunned that nobody even noted his license number...
...didn't pay much attention. Albert Harris turned up the next morning. All he remembered was a voice saying, "You're a good nigger-we aren't going to hurt you much." He'd been hit on the head with a pistol...
Then Ezequiel Padilla called in reporters. He showed them a penciled note allegedly smuggled out from the imprisoned Mario. In the note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
...carloads of deputies screeched to the curb. Holding back the crowd at pistol point, they threw the ballot box into one of the cars and carried it off to the jail for their own brand of safe counting...