Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...
...police sergeant, was in command of Agent Jonah Cox, killer of Archibald Eugster after a rum chase last fortnight (TIME, June 24). He had warned Agent Cox to "go easy with the gun" on previous occasions, had filed a report censuring his reckless misuse of firearms. When Eugster was shot, Agent Jacques remarked that his complaint against Cox had been borne out, whereupon he was reprimanded by his superior for discussing the case. Last week he quit the U. S. service with this explanation...
...shouting farmers added to Wallace's misery, roused his temper. Quickly he raked Nelly's ribs, broke her neck, left her to die, loped across the pasture into a cottage garden. There the Lyme Regis postman, armed with a revolver, stalked the lion through the hollyhocks, shot him dead...
...Cincinnati, one Mrs. Bertha Simpson, in order not to wake her husband one stormy night last week, waited for a thunder clap to drown the noise of the revolver with which she shot herself...
...Marshfield, Ore., a cougar leaped to the back of a cow belonging to Farmer W. J. Ocheltree. When it leaped off again to attack him, Farmer Ocheltree kicked it four times in the face, made it run. Then he dogged, treed, shot...