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...until six o'clock, but often the cadets went down to the basement to study, because the lights were turned out in the rooms. We were allowed no cines but if caught cutting we, were required to "walk the area" for twenty-two hours. This was called a "month slug," and meant patrolling back and forth carrying a gun and unable to speak to anyone. A chapel cut counted as two class cuts...
...brain is wet with alcohol. Thus Dr. Gettler could tell that Ruth Snyder besotted her husband before she and Judd Gray crushed his skull with a sash weight (TIME. April 4, 1927, et seq.}. Driving from the crime she tried to enhearten Judd Gray with a slug of whiskey. "That whiskey." said Dr. Gettler, "was loaded with bichloride of mercury. Sweet woman." Both murderers have been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers...
...That's a slug. That's no nickel...
Federal agents, ever vigilant for evidence of gunrunning, became interested in the case when 30 rifles were found aboard the Carma. But the murdering slug came from none of these weapons. One of the ship's company, all of whom signed on as crew when harbor officials declared the Carma unseaworthy, was Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, self-styled "remittance man," second son of the Duke of Manchester. He admitted having a .38 calibre revolver. He said he had lent it to a friend who had lent it to a friend. Lord Edward was taken into custody. So were...
...noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with his left hand. Outside he thought he saw some figures running. He fired at them. Then he fell down, shot in the hip. He got up again. Another policeman ran up. They looked...