Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrown her over a cliff, breaking her collarbone, 2) trod on her neck, 3) doused her with kerosene and set her afire, 4) slashed at her throat with a razor, 5) menaced her with hot grease, 6) shoved her out a window, 7) singed her hair with a shotgun blast. The jury thereupon acquitted her of first-degree murder...
...Banion was rubbed out. His mob half-killed Johnny Torrio with shotgun slugs, broke his nerve and drove him out of town. For a while, the O'Banions were as tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until...
Charles Minor Blackford, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, kissed his wife goodbye, grabbed his double-barreled shotgun, mounted his "very fine roan" and rode out of Lynchburg, Va. one morning in June...
Instead of a click, there was a blast which echoed down the great tubes. While Pearl stood frozen, people began running, yelling, and pointing to her Christmas-wrapped camera (which police later found to be two long wooden boxes with a sawed-off shotgun wired between). Slowly, stupidly, Pearl walked up to the dark woman who lay in a widening pool of blood...
Upshot. In Danville, Ill., a farmer's wife was cleaning out her husband's pockets when a shotgun shell fell out, dropped on a heater, shot her in the hand...