Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovery was not made by the ornate Corporal of the Guard, theoretically responsible for all sentries, but by a passing policeman, amazed to find one of the palace sentry boxes empty. The police-man reported this unusual fact to the Officer of the Guard...
...Policeman and officer searched diligently. Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes. Detectives from Scotland Yard joined the search, but no trace of the scarlet-coated, white-belted sentry could be found...
...Debated the killing by a Washington policeman of a 21-year-old bootleg suspect. Drys applauded what Wets called "murder...
Died. James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1879, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Athlete Pilkington won the national amateur championship in both boxing and wrestling on the same night...
...Dehated the killing by a Washington policeman of a 21-year-old bootleg suspect. Drys applauded what Wets called "murder...