Word: shotgunned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ardmore, Okla., Mrs. A. J. Hardy was driving home with her husband from a hunting trip. A dog in the car pawed at the trigger of a shotgun. Mrs. Hardy was shot dead...
Near Jamestown, N. Y., Tearle H. George, fireman, caught a muskrat in a trap, prodded it with the butt of his shotgun, was shot in the abdomen...
...also used in starting ordinary engines in heavier-than-aircraft (e. g. the Heywood starter). Other types are: 1) hand inertia; 2) electric inertia, comparable to the automobile starter, by means of a storage battery; 3) a device inserted into an engine cylinder and employing a 12-gauge shotgun shell. When the shell is fired, it creates enough compression to turn the engine several times. The latter device, invented in France, was first shown in the U. S. by Charles A. Levine. Option for its manufacture is now held by Eclipse Aviation Co.. Orange, N. J., sole manufacturers...
...Kentville, N. S., Pryor James 15 years ago built him an ark for a second flood. Recently police suspected him of illegal liquor traffic, found homebrew in the ark. Pryor James barricaded himself in his shanty, opened fire. When he appeared at the door, shotgun in hand, after an all-night siege, police shot him dead...
...Stockade all that day. When Kirkland was returned to the camp, a mob of 75 gathered, including the nine-year-old's father. The sheriff decided to take his prisoner to a nearby town for safekeeping, emerged with him. The girl's father raised a shotgun. Turmoil followed and, despite the urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff, bundled Willie Kirkland into a truck, took him to Magnolia Gardens (where Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney has a shooting preserve, where the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna had his winter home). There they hanged him from...