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...game hunting on Plympton Street: gentleman in first floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges...
...game warden served a warrant on Col. W. B. Hutchinson, member of the Governor's staff, for having illegally shot five does. Col. Hutchinson claimed he had not noticed the does in the heavy underbrush, had fired at a buck, killing buck and does with one 12-pellet shotgun shell. Said he: "This has worried me for almost a month. It was purely an accident but it is far better that a judge should decide. ... I have seen a miracle...
...animal portraiture, and knowing practically nothing about the artist, called him before the committee and elected him to membership. Respectable Portraitist Henry Rittenberg was proud to do Stephen Bransgrove, A. N. A. This spring Academician Bransgrove submitted another canvas of a man, a girl, five setters and a shotgun. Another more acute Academician discovered that, line for line, stroke for stroke, it was a copy of a picture by one H. Septimus Power now hanging in the National Gallery in Sydney, Australia, and reproduced in full color in the 1927 Christmas annual of Table Talk. Then came the disclosures: Stephen...
...that time Nelson's woman had leaped out into a ditch. Screened by their engine hood, Nelson and his male companion were pumping machine gun bullets at the Federal men. From behind their own automobile the agents opened fire, Cowley with a machine gun, Hollis with an automatic shotgun. Each one had emptied his gun before he fell, riddled with bullets. The outlaws ceased firing. One of them, shot in the legs, was limping badly. Their woman ran to the Federal car, drove it back to pick them up. As the automobile disappeared westward a State policeman who had been...
Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped...