Word: shotgunned
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...defendant in a recent Chicago trial was charged with carrying a sawed-off shotgun into a bar. His defense was that a companion, who had already pleaded guilty to a related offense, had also been the person holding the shotgun. Policemen who made the arrest stated flatly that they had seen the accused drop the shotgun and kick it away when they entered the saloon. Nonetheless, the jury voted for acquittal. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, a policeman testified in a narcotics case that the defendant had indeed asked to see a search warrant, but had willingly admitted...
...armed men -wearing ski masks and carrying a walkie-talkie to get word from a lookout -slithered into Rose's Sandwich Shop on the hairy, scary West Side. "Up against the wall!" they ordered the eight people inside. One of the gunmen then shoved a twelve-gauge shotgun under the chin of Richard Cain, 49. The hit man fired two blasts, blowing away Cain's handsome face. The killers quickly fled, accompanied by what witnesses later said was a mysterious "woman in blue...
...three Mafia gangsters in 1968 for offering kickbacks in return for Teamster loans. Three years later, the indictment was dismissed for lack of evidence. As it happened, a crucial Government witness turned up dead-floating in his boat down a river, the back of his head removed by a shotgun blast. "Nick has always conducted himself like a real gentleman," says McMahon, explaining their friendship. Did Ed know of Nick's association with the Mafia? "Hell, they're everywhere. There isn't any way you can be in show business without knowing some of them...
...forced to stop it, in order to escape temporarily any nightmare or turmoil he brings down on himself. We initially see him attempting--and failing--to entertain an imagined dream audience, then lapsing further into a fantasy version of the real world in which he is forced into a shotgun marriage with Typically English Evie. While he is working his way up the executive ladder of success, we follow Littlechap on his business trips around the world as he enjoys the pleasures of Glorious Russian Anya, Typische Deutsche Ilse, and All-American Ginnie...
...permanently paralyzed from the neck down in a motorcycle accident, and Lester Zygmaniak, 23, had reached an agonizing decision. "I am here today to end your pain, George. Is that all right with you?" Lester asked. George nodded yes from his hospital bed, and Lester pulled a sawed-off shotgun from under his coat. "The next thing I knew I had shot him," Lester told jurors in Freehold, N.J. as they considered murder charges against him. Last week, after 2½ hours of deliberation, they found Lester not guilty by reason of temporary insanity. They also found that...