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...constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court complaining bitterly that some policeman had given way to his feelings and booted him violently on the fundament, causing a painful bruise at the base of his spine...
...visitors' gallery), followed immediately by a general drawing and firing of guns by Mexico's lawmakers. Manuel Ruiz died on the steps of the speaker's tribune with eight bullets in his body. General Sebastian Allende went down in the fusillade with a shot through the spine which he insisted came from somebody's chauffeur, standing in the doorway. Deputy Esteban Garcia de Alba blazed away until a bullet through the hand sent his pistol spinning. From his dugout beneath the press desk the Associated Press correspondent counted more than 60 shots before hostilities ceased...
...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...
...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 his pillow, two caught him in the back. Samuel Divino, 5, and Florence D'Amello, 14, were less seriously...
Children are much more susceptible than adults. Early symptoms are like those of many other diseases-restlessness or drowsiness, fever, irritability. The infected child may vomit once or twice, may be either constipated or have diarrhea. More significant are a sore, stiff neck and spine, pain in the back, arms and legs...