Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...learned that Soliah had been friendly with S.L.A. members and other radicals, known as the "Tom Thumb" group, suspected of robbing a bank near Sacramento last April 21. A young woman led the masked bandits who looted the bank of $15,000 and killed a housewife with a shotgun blast in the process. Authorities speculated at the time that Patty's band of S.L.A. fugitives might have had a hand in the bank raid...
...them were almost two years old," says an agent. But when the pair came jogging back home, there was no longer any doubt. The four agents leaped out of the LTD, and the other three came sprinting from the nearby camper. They were armed with pistols, a sawed-off shotgun and submachine guns. One watching neighbor later recalled, "They [the agents] seemed very nervous and shaky." The woman tried to get away, only to be caught within 20 ft. But the man calmly put up his hands, says another witness, "like a little kid who had been caught doing something...
...pursuit of prospects. In 1962 he struck one of baseball's alltime bargains by paying only $500 to sign Shortstop Bert Campaneris, then a catcher for a team in Cuba. Two years later Finley heard about a kid pitcher from Hertford, N.C., who had peppered his foot with shotgun pellets in a hunting accident. Finley descended upon Hertford, stalked the youngster, captured him with a $75,000 bonus and sent him to the Mayo Clinic for a foot operation. As a publicity stunt, Finley told the 18-year-old to call himself Catfish. Ten years later, Jim ("Catfish") Hunter...
...violence started against Hoffa's men. In August 1974 an explosion wrecked Johnson's 45-ft. cabin cruiser, on which he and Hoffa had spent many pleasant hours fishing and talking union politics. George Roxburghy, a trustee of the local, was blinded in one eye by a shotgun blast. Otto Wendel, the local's secretary-treasurer, had his barn burned to the ground. A bomb exploded outside the house of an organizer for the local...
...pyramid of arms, the arsenal we were promised that wouldn't fit into a garage?" In any case, four of the conspirators took one of the rifles with them when they ambushed the dictator in May 1961, though they actually gunned him down with a sawed-off shotgun fired at pointblank range as he cringed by the side...