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...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...
...Shotgun Toters. Elsewhere throughout frantically excited Buenos Aires firing had only begun. Supporters of ousted ex-President Hipólito Irigoyen seized whatever firearms came handy, swarmed into the streets with shotguns and hunting rifles, dashed about in motor cars proclaiming General Uriburu's overthrow? which they may or may not have believed...
Buenos Aires was Bedlam. But steadily, methodically, hour after hour General Uriburu was bringing fresh troops from suburban garrisons into the Capital. With masterly skill he organized calm, drove the Irigoyenist shotgun-toters off the streets, proved that counter revolution worthy of the name had never existed, made himself highly popular with men of property...
...Kansas City, Mo., the Rev. Carl C. Walker, operator of a prayer tabernacle, left town without paying his divorced wife's alimony. Mrs. Walker went to the tabernacle, seized 193 chairs, a vacuum cleaner, an electric refrigerator, a grand piano, a xylophone, a shotgun, offered them for sale. The congregation paid the alimony to get the church furnishings back...