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...into a peck of trouble, and, if I must hang for the murder of a woman, I don't want any more of them around to gloat over the spectacle." There were two women who were eligible to assist at the "spectacle." They were Mrs. Dorothy Tedell, policewoman, and Miss Nina Bowers, nurse. Said the sheriff, uninfluenced by the wishes of Jim Hayes, "These women will be allowed to witness the hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bull v. Romero | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...week's end, the Sainte Marie, largest ice crusher in the world, swaggered over from the Strait of Mackinac, where she does regular winter duty. Like a burly policewoman, she pushed her way through crashing, shrieking ice to see what the trouble was. Where the pack was solid, she would back away, and, with a schlup and a slide and a scream of steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Last Dollar | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

Said Sergeant Rhoda Milliken, policewoman : "Any music played on a saxophone is immoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indecent | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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