Word: teichman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing room of Honingham Hall in England's Norfolk County, Sir Eric Teichman sat before a cosy fire and was content. Lunch was over and quiet lay on the big house. Then, from outside, came the sound of shots. Sir Eric, 60-year-old retired British diplomat and expert on Far Eastern affairs, rose from his armchair, growled to Lady Ellen: "I'm going out to stop this damned poaching." Unarmed, he set out to stop...
Last week, three days after the shooting, Private George E. Smith Jr., of Pittsburgh, was arrested on a charge of murdering Sir Eric Teichman, Private Leonard S. Wijpacha of Detroit on a charge of being an accessory. A U.S. Army court-martial prepared to hear evidence in an ancient English crime: murder by poachers...