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...army and wandering Cossacks unexpectedly collided. During the retreat, Caul-aincourt saw refugees who were clinging to wagons fall off, be crushed beneath the wheels, while stupefied drivers were heartened at the lightening of their loads. He saw horses that fell, torn apart for food before they were killed. Pursuer and pursued mixed in a vast mass of suffering humanity, with isolated groups of French deep in Russian lines, crazed Cossacks lost among French refugees. Weary of slaughtering, Cossacks stole clothing, then gave their victims clothing they had stolen from others. Frightened at reports of an "idiotic" coup in Paris...
Reader, John H. Hammond '37; Jim Bent Ernest A. Gray Jr. '37; Kane, Danbar Holmes '35; Mrs Schultz John H. Having '36; The Girl Robert S. Brookings 2d. '35; First Parsner, William Shelmerdine, Jr. '37; Second Pursuer William B. Bersscubrugge...
...methods. But Morgan's gallantry and success in raiding through Kentucky and Ohio soon made him a bogeyman to the North, a hero to the South. One of his tricks was to capture a telegraph station, send fake messages to foil the enemy. Once he wired to his disgruntled pursuer: "Good morning, Jerry! This telegraph is a great institution. You should destroy it as it keeps me too well posted...
...Paoli, Pa., Edward Walters, 15, walked into a store, calmly cleaned out the contents of the cash-register, marched out again. Chased by a policeman, he fled along a railroad embankment, when suddenly he caught sight of an express train bearing down on him and his pursuer from behind. Realizing that the policeman was unaware of the express, he turned, tackled the officer, rolled down the embankment with him, where he was arrested. In court, Edward Walters returned the stolen money, heard himself praised as a lifesaver, received from the policeman money enough to get back to Cleveland, his home...
...quiet Florida night last week. Then furtively came a thief to up anchor and sail away ghostlike to the south. In hot pursuit the next morning went Author Munroe, borne on the wings of a seaplane. Munroe's pilot dropped alongside of the sloop and the pursuer leapt aboard. At the point of a gun he forced the thief to come about, then he bound him and put out for the Coconut Grove anchorage...