Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate rules, he votes only to break a tie. He is not permitted to join in legislative debate or make any kind of speech. His utterances are confined to cut & dried parliamentary rulings which a Senate majority can overturn at will. On his Senate throne he is a glorified policeman, keeping peace in the chamber but powerless to influence any of its deliberations...
August Gobel, stoker, and Adolph Weigand. policeman, sat in the boiler room of the Christian Feigenspan ice plant at Newark, N. J. late one night last week. August Gobel knew policemen and liked them. He had spent several weeks in jail, not because he had done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal...
...gang were dead now, too. A fellow named Weissman out in Kansas City. Another in Philadelphia. Another in Atlantic City. So now some men come to the ice' plant last Tuesday looking for him, Gobel. He was the State's star witness to the first murder. So Policeman Weigand had been sent there with his big blue revolver to keep Gobel safe...
...coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with his left hand. Outside he thought he saw some figures running. He fired at them. Then he fell down, shot in the hip. He got up again. Another policeman ran up. They looked up and down the empty factory streets but they did not see anyone, anything. When they rolled Gobel over he was dead. He had only nine bullets in him?nine...
...while the Redshaws rested in jail. Fred Redshaw offered to give Andy to the Rochester Zoo if his life were spared. But Miss Mary Foubister, secretary of the Rochester Dog Protective Association, demanded sterner justice. She appealed to the State Conservation Commission, soon was standing by while a State policeman pumped shotgun slugs into Andy until he was dead...