Word: watchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlanta, Ga., an unemployed night-watchman, James Worthy, depressed by having spent his last penny, piped the exhaust of his car in a window, turned on the engine, began inhaling fumes. Doubly depressed was the would-be-suicide when...
...still felt all right, so he started off across a swamp in his bare feet. At Harrison, a mile from the hospital, a night watchman gave him a pair of rubbers and a suit of overalls. Joe trudged stolidly on to Newark, found his friend. He still felt all right, so he decided to stay around for a while and enjoy himself. Meanwhile, police were searching the swamp for Joe's body...
Last week Jake Kilrain, lately a night-watchman, died of cancer, heart disease and gangrene on the exact day the American Mercury appeared with this robust account of the almost incredibly titanic Kilrain-Sullivan battle. The story was the work of Oland D. Russell. Few ringside sportsmen 49 years ago would have wagered that the stumbling, blotched pulp of Jake Kilrain would serve him to a ripe age of 78. Almost as astonishing as his longevity was the Mercury's luck in timing Contributor Russell's story with Jake Kilrain's unpredictable death last week, the first...
...September day, Watchman John. Drexel, whose duties included guarding the closed Chicago stonecutting plant of St. Louis' big Steven & Son, made an excited long distance call to his employers. "The plant has been stolen," gasped Watchman Drexel. "It's gone." Chicago police, after a look at the dismantled plant, immediately recalled that, two weeks before, the stonecutting firm of T. C. Diener Co. had also reported that their closed plant, consisting of four buildings full of machinery, had been completely razed. Investigation disclosed that both jobs had been done by a crew of Negro workmen. A trail...
Typically, several Arabs, choosing a moment when guards of the Christian Lydda Airport had relaxed their patrol and were resting in a watchman's hut, set fires which caused airport buildings and equipment to burn last week for a loss of $100,000. Next, the police station at Daharieh, between Hebron and Beersheba, was overwhelmed by Arabs who made off with the Christian policemen's arms, shouting: "Tell your English bosses to go drink whiskey and play football! They should not think they can fight us. We will drive them out of Palestine...