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Returning to Texas, Hardin married, went into the cattle business, killed at least four and perhaps eight Negro policemen, was almost killed when a local badman emptied a shotgun into him point blank. Chased by one mob after another while terribly wounded, he developed his lifelong fear of lynching, surrendered to the authorities, who let him escape. Cutting his way out of jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative...
...friend whom he had baptized into his church. Though the charges were dropped, Baptist Eskridge brooded. Other friends said he drove furiously around Orange all one night. Next day Police Chief O'Reilly was standing on a street corner. An automobile whizzed by. From it barked a shotgun. Orange's police chief fell dead...
...exile in Siberia, charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Alexander III. One of the leaders of the plot was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin, who was hanged. Exile Pilsudski was well treated by his Russian guards, even allowed to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
Thirteen years ago when Spada first set out to make a name for himself with a double-barreled shotgun and a pocketful of shells, he was a plump, handsome young man, looking for all the world like a road company tenor in Cavalleria Rusticana. His reputation began to grow when he shot two gendarmes in the back, killing one. He considered the highway between Ajaccio and Sopigna his personal property, collected tribute from all travelers for years. He avenged himself on a young man who ran away with his mistress by murdering the boy's uncle and a cousin...
...line, pulled on the sinker until the scissors slid into place across the wires, short-circuiting the whole Scotch Plains system and costing the company a little more of the $100,000. This time, when the police called on John Crempa, they were obliged to retire before a shotgun held by Mrs. Crempa on the front porch, a pistol held by John upstairs. While the police planned a siege, enthusiastic neighbors brought the Crempas food...