Word: pistoles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Pennsylvania couple who were parked there for the night. He raped Allen's wife, set fire to her hair and seared her body with burning newspapers. After five hours of torture, he choked her to death. Allen managed to get loose after Folk had gone, got his pistol, gave chase, and shot and wounded the killer. Folk is a paretic who was declared insane in New Mexico after beating and raping a 17-year-old girl in 1949, but was released from a state asylum after only a few months...
...even though he had escaped from Folsom Prison during his term, and committed new crimes before being caught, and even though his own mother, afraid of her son, pleaded against his release-Pedrini was paroled. Last month, after pistol-whipping and robbing another gas-station operator, Pedrini began running wild in neighboring Sonora County...
...tall, fragile, handsome young man. He had moods of burning exhilaration. They were followed by moods of suicidal depression. He drank wildly. His father had committed suicide; Tom Buntin talked with animation of killing himself. One night his wife awakened, found him holding a pistol at his head and knocked the weapon aside. Buntin got so scandalously drunk one afternoon in September 1931 that he broke into the home of two horrified spinsters and was hauled off to jail. When he disappeared two days later, many of his friends believed he had left town to do away with himself...
...expanded College Pistol Club begins its season tonight. Ebenozer Gay '55, of Lowell announced a change in H.A.A. regulations that will allow students under 21 to "discharge firearms" will permit a larger membership...
...explained that the club, founded in 1950, had only 12 members due to the restriction. "New, the pistol range will be open to every undergraduate at Harvard," Gay said...