Word: sheriffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each of the four crimes of violence mentioned in your article, committed during the last month or so in Marion County, Ind., has been definitely solved by the state police, the county sheriff and the Indianapolis police force, with the result that the twelve criminals involved are now all under arrest, all have confessed, and the cases will very shortly be called for trial...
...that has what appears to be delicate baby-blue eyes veiled with beautiful false eyelashes. After long training by a small, red-haired boy (Ted Donaldson) and interminable praying by a pious terrier, Big Red wins the big race just in time to save the old homestead from the sheriff. Best bit: a gory battle royal between the stallion and a jolly black bear, which delegates all the infighting to a stand-in from the taxidermist...
...roughness in the second statement has been more apparent. In the past four years in Beeville (pop. 7,000), a South Texas oil and cattle town, Sheriff Ennis has killed seven people with his .44 Colt revolver and his .45 submachine gun-not all, however, with one shot...
...Tail Roarer. A Nacogdoches County boy who never finished high school, Vail Ennis high-tailed it for the oilfields when he was 16. He neither drank nor smoked, but he was a heller who would try to whup the pants off anybody he met. The Bee County sheriff cottoned to this abstemious rip-tail roarer and made him his chief deputy in 1941. In 1943, Vail killed his first man when he shot "his way out of a tight place while making an arrest. He was tried for murder, and acquitted. A year later he was elected sheriff. Fifteen days...
...Felix had a shotgun in the house; whether or not he pointed it at Sheriff Ennis is still in dispute. Anyway, the sheriff let go with his submachine gun. Felix tottered backward, died in his daughter Victoria's arms. Geronimo's uncles, Domingo and Antonio, came running from the back of the house. Ennis wheeled on the porch, fired another burst. They fell dead, too. Economical Ennis had fired only five shots-two for Felix, two for Dom and one for Tony...