Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day of the new regime was calm. But during the night, bonfires burned in the hills near the capital, ominously spelling out in the darkness the initials M.N.R. The following night, partisans attacked a police station; one policeman was killed, three wounded. That, paceños feared, was only the beginning...
When the bullet-riddled body of Philadelphia Policeman James T. Morrow was found in an empty lot back in 1936, his fellow officers set out to show the world that cop-killing never pays. First they exacted a confession from a suspect named Joseph Broderick. On second thought, they let him go and got another from a feebleminded 19-year-old named George Bilger. The obliging Bilger (who happily confessed a lot of other crimes, too) was promptly sent off to the penitentiary. But after three years, the cops had a new thought: the murder had been committed...
...Proof. Sheeler vanished into the recesses of City Hall. A week later, he signed a confession: Gunman Howard had shot the policeman and he, Sheeler, had been a witness and accessory to the crime. He was sent to the penitentiary for life by the late Philadelphia Judge Harry S. McDevitt, who neatly disposed of the feebleminded Bilger by getting him transferred to a mental institution from which he conveniently escaped...
...sort. He had grown up in an orphan asylum, had become a depression road-kid, and-before he found a job-a petty criminal. He served his time quietly, although his wife had obtained records which proved he had been at work in New York on the night the policeman was shot in Philadelphia. But after seven years, when the cops failed to keep what he regarded as a solemn promise-to get him out after a short term-he began to fight...
...Barnstable district court that she told Chaput that the house was her father's. When the pair discovered the door locked. Miss Poulos told Chaput to knock in a window, which he did. Once inside, they lit fires in two fireplaces, and were later discovered by a passing policeman who informed Chaput that the house no longer belonged to the Poulos family...