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...Discipline. Neither side had their hearts in the quarrel. The Greeks fell back, firing at random. A stray bullet killed a British officer, the affair's only casualty. At 3:45 a.m. a grimy mutineers' delegation asked for terms; above all, they wanted Greek political unity. Tight-lipped British officers listened politely, then told the delegation to go back, get properly cleaned up and return with an unconditional surrender. By the dawn's half-light the Greeks were back, clean and submissive...
...Levis (near Quebec City), Georges Guenette was a hunted man, suspected of evading the draft and beating up a constable. Last week four Mounties found Guenette in his father's farmhouse. He jumped out of a window, ran across the fields. Guenette fell, wounded "by a ricocheting bullet," died without the last rites of the church...
...test") whether a suspect has recently fired a gun: if he has, a paraffin cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons, it has solved many an otherwise unsolvable crime. Of 1,551 suspects tested with Leonarde Keeler...
...murder cases, detectives go wrong surprisingly often on the cause of death. Dr. Snyder says that they sometimes mistake a knife wound for a bullet hole and vice versa, often wrongly assume that a body found in the water was drowned...
...several fallacies about murder: that it will out; that a murderer always returns to the scene of his crime; that quicklime will liquidate a body (quicklime tends to preserve it); that surprise or fear may be fixed on a victim's face (death relaxes the muscles); that a bullet in the heart kills instantly (Dr. Snyder tells of a policeman who, after being shot through the heart, fired six shots at his murderer, walked across a street to his car before he died...