Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise, that the great drama had turned into something akin to a forum for Colonel Nickerson. First off, Nickerson pleaded guilty in effect to charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced, one by one, a galaxy of star witnesses including the creator of Hitler's V2, Wernher von Braun, to deliver what he called "mitigating" evidence. "Is not Nickerson bitterly partisan?" he asked one witness, a German research scientist. "Yes-in favor...
Then the police found out something else about young Ray Edwards. On April 2 5, 1955 for shooting an old Philadelphia baker to death during an attempted burglary, Ray's father, Grover Cleveland Edwards, 36, was put to death in the electric chair...
...Germantown widow living on social security. As the two boys drove around all night, Marty poured out the troubles he was having with his old man. ended up by saying, "I'm fed up with him. I'm going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis, 15, who agreed to join in the plot because he felt sorry for Marty. The plot was simple...
...down and waited for Daniels Sr. They waited for two hours. But when he finally lurched down the street, mounted the steps of his house and sat down, another one of his sons was sitting there. Marty Daniels, afraid he might hit his brother, passed the rifle to Marksman Ray. "Here," he said, "you do the shooting. You're a better shot than I am." Marty's dad was sitting with his knees up to his chest, and Ray allowed that from that distance (60 ft.), he could hit Daniels any place he wanted. Marty told...
...Philadelphia police picked up the three teen-agers as they were returning from Germantown, took them to City Hall, where they readily admitted the murder, signed confessions. There was no difficulty in establishing Marty Daniels' motive for plotting the murder: he hated his father. But what were Ray Edwards' motives? Even to the hardbitten cops, Ray's explanation was a shocker. Why had he fired the rifle? Edwards replied blandly: "Because [Marty] asked me to." Any other reason? "Well, I had the urge to kill...