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...founder (in 1929) of the nation's first school of scientific crime detection at Northwestern University; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Colonel Goddard's ballistics techniques were widely disputed in 1927 when he presented evidence at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial that a bullet from Nicola Sacco's gun had killed South Braintree Payroll Guard Alessandro Berardelli...
...morning of June 9. 1946, the young King (elder brother of the present popular, jazz-composing King Phumiphon Adundet) was found in his bed with a bullet hole through his forehead and a .45 near his hand. Soon afterward, the then Premier, Pridi Phanomyong. announced that the King had killed himself accidentally...
...made perfect." If the old man has any worry at all, it is not that Nashua may not be fit, but that Boston Doge (by The Doge out of Boston Lady) may be faster. A cheeky contender from the wrong side of the tracks, the Beantown Bullet is as much of a surprise to his owner as he is to the public. A year ago, before Boston Doge had been raced, the Boston livery business was bad, and it was said that Owner Paul Andolino would gladly peddle his little colt for $7,500. This season Andolino has turned down...
They love the leaden bullet better...
...most sadistic reader that the gallows are brutal, and that even the basest criminals are too good for hanging. But all he may accomplish is that reformers will propose some more efficient or humanitarian substitutes for the gallows-such as the neat old guillotine, the quick bullet in the back of the neck, or the concentration camp, where prisoners may die unhurriedly and without benefit of rope...