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...half-light. Then she called the speakeasy. When police arrived an hour later, they found a group of gaping lodgers standing around the room in their nightclothes. Diamond's doctor shifted from foot to foot. A redhaired, wild-eyed woman was mopping blood from around three slug holes in the head of the corpse that had been her husband...
...Thomas J. White, general man ager of all Hearstpapers, who were there, too. But their smiles must have frozen when, three days later, they discovered that ever since the party the line at the top of the real Examiner's cinema page had, by some excruciating oversight, carried the slug: "... A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO DRINK...
...that, he began insulting the frightened young women, threatened "to get even for what their race had done to his.'' At this point, Nell Williams made a grab for the gun. The Negro shot her in the arm. He shot her sister in the stomach, and another slug tore into Miss Wood's spine. With her friends stretched groaning in the woods, Nell Williams jumped in the car and made for the nearest house, three miles away...
...general direction of a loafer lounging in front of the Helmar Club, opened fire. The man ducked out of range, fled. Instead of reaching him, the spattering bullets cut down a knot of children. Young, red-headed Frank Scalesi ducked behind his lemonade stand just as a slug smashed his pitcher. Michael Vengalli, 5, was struck in the thigh, the bullet penetrating the base of his spine. He died that night. His brother Salvatore, 7, was knocked sprawling by five bullets in his body. Michael Bevilacqua, a baby of 3, lay nearby in his carriage. Four slugs tore into...
...rumbled through Arnold. Strikers blocked the road, pleaded with the strikebreakers. Then a little boy threw an egg at one of the convoying deputies. The shooting started. One Mike Filopovich, 40, father of five, ran to the door of his store, which also houses the National relief station. One slug clipped him in the head, another in the chest. He died instantly. Four strikers were wounded. Six constables and two Coal & Iron policemen were arrested for the killing. The Governor ordered an investigation...