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...Whoever can tell a 12-gauge shotgun from a 10 or 16-gauge gun at that distance is indeed an expert. The riding boots are of course ridiculous-but hunting is not always a matter of walking a great distance. To limit "up the trail" hunting to rabbits and birds is as presumptive as calling the hound a fox hound. More likely, it is a rabbit hound which many eastern hunters find quite indispensable. The red-mittencd gentleman's gesture might fit in many a hunting yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...gentleman with the 12 -gauge double-barrel shotgun. He is right where he belongs - with his posterior perched on a bench. With those shiny, tight-fitting riding boots I'll guarantee that if he is foolhardy enough to venture "up the trail," he'll need someone to carry him home. That type of boot is made for riding and not for walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...sheriff sent eight deputies to seize the bodies of John and Sophie Crempa. As usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander was a non-Pole, Deputy Sheriff Edward Carolan. Its armament: six .32 and .38 revolvers, one shotgun, two tear-gas guns. Mr. Carolan deployed his men around the house, broke a window with a stick and had his men fire tear-gas shells into the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crempas | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...just killed three men. Come and get me." Police sped to the address he gave, found four slug-riddled corpses. After investigation they concluded that Charles Geary, angry because an aunt had left him out of her will, had killed his brother and two uncles before turning his shotgun on himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Examples | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...began chopping at it. Ward telephoned the Peekskill police who told him his house was out of their district, called the Cortlandt police who told him to try the state troopers at Hawthorne, 15 miles away, called the state troopers who sent a trooper. Ward got out his shotgun, loaded it, returned to the window. The naked man was still chopping at the door. Ward fired once over his head, the second time into the madman's body. On the way to the hospital, the man, still violent, shouted "Fitzgerald." Weaker he whispered "Fitzgerald" once more before he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Husband | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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