Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Maxwell, 88, "oldest convict in the world"; in the Wisconsin state prison at Waupun. Fifty-five years ago, aged 33, he defended a woman's good name by killing a dance-hall roisterer. Other roisterers, irate, hung Mr. Maxwell to a tall tree. Forthwith, a sheriff arrived, cut him down, took him to jail. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; refused several offers of parole...
Fort Worth was top excited a community for a fair trial of Evangelist Norris. So venue was changed to Austin, where the murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped...
...drop of marrow lingers in their funny-bones. He asks the continuity men if they have achieved the highest possible pitch of acceleration. The result is houses that crash and rock. Mr. Lloyd remains original, rapid, hysterogenic. This time he is Harold Hickory, rabbitty member of a bearish backwoods sheriff's family. He outwits his lumbering brothers and a traveling band of medicine fakers; outflirts the faker's delicious dancer (Jobyna Ralston). Latest Lloyd laughables: a "grinning" stork; laundry on a kite string; amorous tree-climbing; a monkey in a man's shoes; synthetic dishwashing; ringtoss with life-preservers...
...Jefferson County, Tenn., one W. B. Johnson, prosperous farmer, once a sheriff, was walking along a lane with a revolver in his pocket. Just why he was carrying a revolver no one, afterward, could tell, or why, meeting an old woman and her daughter in the lane, he began to quarrel with them. Mr. Johnson, some said, had had a love affair with the daughter. He ended the conversation by shooting each woman in the mouth. They fell dead. He ran to his home, barricaded door and window. He had another revolver in the house and 150 rounds of ammunition...
...Gamache '27, center on the University football team and a member of the lacrosse team is foreman of the Ogden ranch in the part of Tom Mixer. R. W. Ayer '28, as Bull Montana, is the blustering sheriff...