Word: shotgun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of crime-which included grand larceny, cattle stealing and blasting an old man with a shotgun and then drowning him in the Mississippi-hefty, hardfisted, 33-year-old Clarence B. ("Hogjaw") Grammar was eminently qualified to be a "shooter." After he began his life term at Parchman in 1940 he demonstrated other good qualities: he beat up fellow prisoners and talked politely to the guards. When he killed a convict who was attacking a prison guard in 1947, the state gratefully released...
Bully Boys. Success, however, went to Hogjaw's head. Only a year and a half later he got drunk, threatened some Negroes with a shotgun, resisted arrest and was sent back to the prison farm. He was not particularly dismayed; he was made keeper of the prison bloodhounds, was well fed, and was allowed to go off on criminal tracking jaunts when law officers asked for use of the dogs...
Reporter Pickering had heard enough. The building at Milwaukee and Cass was obviously the headquarters of the C.I.O's United Automobile Workers and the Big Guy was its hard-hitting President Walter Reuther, who was cut down by a shotgun blast fired through his kitchen window 20 months ago. Pickering called a photographer, and hustled from the office...