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...snipers. Helen Hall, a Connecticut woman staying at the Harlan House Motel just two blocks from Detroit's famed Fisher Building, on the fringe of the riots, walked to a hallway window Tuesday night to see what the shooting was about. She died with a sniper's bullet in her heart...
...Spot. That was also true of the National Guardsmen. The crack of a sniper's bullet-and sometimes simply the bang of a firecracker or the pop of a light bulb-brought forth fantastic fusillades from police and National Guard rifles, shotguns, machine guns and pistols. Four-year-old Tonia Blanding was shot dead in an apartment when lawmen saw her uncle strike a match to light a cigarette, mistook the flare for a sniper's muzzle flash, and poured bullets through the window...
...decide what we want to do next." In three nights of rioting, New York's cops fired only 50 to 75 rounds, in return had 150 to 200 directed at them. One reason for such economy is that Police Commissioner Howard Leary requires a report on every bullet used...
...other of approaching danger. As Itō soon found, no place was really safe. The Chamorros, always armed and forever prowling through the jungles in search of stragglers, discovered his hiding place three times. They killed one of his mates in 1948 and nicked Itō himself with a bullet in 1957. Finally, seven years ago, a Chamorro band caught his last companion climbing a coconut tree, and Itō decided he could go on no longer. Rather than face the jungle alone, he turned himself in at the U.S. garrison on the island...
...veterans stormed I.W.W. head quarters in Centralia, Wash., Wesley Everest was cornered and caught. He sneered: "You haven't got the guts to hang a man in the daytime." He was right: the mob came back that night, snatched him from jail and hanged his bullet-riddled body from a bridge...