Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rambling on hour after hour, contradicting themselves and each other at every turn, the Chicago police convicted themselves of boobery if not butchery. Contributed by William V. Daly, assistant corporation counsel of the City of Chicago, was this odd defense of a policeman photographed clubbing an unconscious body: "You got to consider the human element...
...stand was assisted a boilermaker from another company. He said he had gone to the Republic plant to inquire for his brother, who was inside. A policeman refused him permission to enter. Testified the boilermaker: "Then an officer at my left cursed and said, 'Stand back you so-&-so or I'll fill you full of lead. . . . ' Those...
Wearing a WPA badge and serving as a volunteer policeman at the scene of the discovery of the bodies was slim, 32-year-old Albert Dyer who had known the three little girls from his year's work as a traffic guard in front of the Centinela grammar school. At the discovery of the bodies, he asked men in the crowd not to smoke "out of respect to the dead." That night his 24-year-old wife Isabel helped him add the day's newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls...
...Newell's encounter but had escaped injury by sprinting and beating at the birds with his hands. Without further concern for the law, a patrolman was sent with a shotgun to the spot, which is opposite the Pocantico Hills estate of the late John D. Rockefeller. The policeman killed one owl, was joined by a Rockefeller warden who shot down four more...
...policemen are seen beating one man. One strikes him horizontally across the face, using his club as he would a baseball bat. Another crashes it down on top of his head, and still another is whipping him across the back. . . . In one such scene, directly in the foreground, a policeman gives the fallen man a final smash on the head before moving on to the next...