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...City of Cambridge had one of its most enjoyable summers in a long while. Its Water Department workmen ripped up nearly every street and sidewalk in the Harvard Square area during a pipe cleaning operation. Cambridge water mains are over 100 years old, and William H. McGuinness, superintendent of the Cambridge Water Department, hopes the present cleaning and relining operation will make them good for another hundred years
...Powell slashed out again, and Gilligan fired at his raised hand. The bullet went through Powell's arm just above the wrist, lodged in his chest. Powell lunged again, still stabbing with the knife. Gilligan stepped back, fired into Powell's abdomen. The youth fell to the sidewalk and died...
...hose and that the kids retaliated by throwing garbage-can covers and bottles at him. The superintendent, Patrick Lynch, fled into the building, and Powell followed him. Gilligan, who had just taken a radio to a repair shop in the building, heard the noise, ran out to the sidewalk to see what was going...
Contradictions. The basic contradictions in testimony lay in the claims of 15 teenagers, most of whom knew Powell, that Powell had not attacked Gilligan with a knife. Most of them said that Powell had fallen to the sidewalk after the first shot. Then, claimed ten of these witnesses, Gilligan fired two shots into Powell when he was down on the sidewalk...
Police could find no bullet marks in the recently cemented sidewalk to indicate that Gilligan had fired at Powell as he lay prone. One bullet was found in Powell's body, one passed through it, the third lodged in a doorjamb of the building. When one youth was confronted by evidence of this shot, which had taken an upward course, he recanted his testimony that Gilligan had fired at the fallen Powell, admitted that he had not even seen the shooting at all. Other youngsters conceded that a truck and spectators blocked their views...