Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phantom sniper," a creature who, invisible for nearly two weeks, moved through the evening streets firing a silent pistol at whatever human targets took his fancy in the house windows or under streetlights. A contractor was first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon made only a muffled chug in the night as his lead whizzed after pedestrians and into people...
...gang of railroad workers captured the "phantom" in Omaha's outskirts, walking the ties. He was a 45-year-old maniac named Frank Carter. He boasted about his marksmanship, displayed his .22 calibre automatic with silencer attachment. He had been paroled from the State prison after conviction for killing a neighbor's cows. He still wanted to "Kill, Kill, Kill," he said. Nebraska hanged...
Sued for Divorce. Howard Henry Spaulding, by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of the late John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charges habitual drunkenness...
...Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers of nerve control are represented by figures at sets of levers much like those in a railroad switching tower. One normal voice speaks the words that the husband has spoken aloud during the first scene of the play. Another voice, terrifyingly mechanical, intones the husband's unspoken thoughts. The "nerve centers'' also speak their reactions, crying "pain! pain!" when MacKenna stubs...
...goalpost was traced to the railroad station, half of the other dove into the ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket booth . . . The other member of the second goalpost was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel. . . . Six men found a trolly car roof the thing that was being done in transportation from the Bowl to Chapel Street...