Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weyer. A practicing lawyer for only two years, he had taken on his first criminal case and lost it. Violet Sill, 34, a bride of 15 months, had confessed, been tried and found guilty of manslaughter, had been sentenced to 20 years in prison. She had fired the shotgun that killed her tavern-owner husband Marion; this was incontrovertible. Yet for 34-year-old Dave Weyer, who had once worked in a children's psychiatric clinic, Violet Sill's continued insistence on her own guilt raised the suspicion that something was wrong with the case. He decided...
...told the Seattle police, that night in 1954: "He's been nagging me for weeks, picking at me and driving me nuts, and I couldn't stand it any longer." So, she said, as police examined husband Marion's fatal neck wound, she got out the shotgun, killed her husband as he lay on the couch, and wounded herself superficially in the arm and stomach in a suicide attempt-firing three shots in all. Satisfied with her story, the cops neglected to complete the normal crime-lab studies of the murder scene, fingerprints and other clues, arrested...
...jacket in the gaping hole in the couch. If Violet shot her husband-as she insisted-when he was on the couch, how account for the human tissue on the ceiling and Violet's jacket threads in the couch? And had she really aimed and fired a shotgun at herself? And, if her story was correct that she fired three times, who reloaded the gun and fired the fourth shot? Finally, Lawyer Weyer asked himself again and again, why was Violet so determined to admit her guilt...
...Heart Knows ... In Wahoo, Neb., when his wife spotted a wild blue goose flying by their house. Bill Behrens honked hopefully at it, found the bird liked his voice, held it in conversation while his wife got his shotgun, heeded her warning against hunting inside city limits, got in his car, kept honking as he drove slowly into open country, got out, honked again, blitzed the beguiled goose...
...Captain E. W. Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...