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...dramatized her adventures. Minna Craucher kept up her spying, was jailed three times for fraud. She knew a great deal about the Lapuan movement and at the beginning of the revolt, when it was discovered that the Finnish government had a complete list of contributors to the Lapuan war chest, Finns looked curiously at Minna Craucher. Last week they found her hunched over a desk with a soft-nosed bullet in her brain. Police inspectors turned thoughtful eyes on General K. Martt Wallenius, Lapuan leader...
...leaving Lima's socialite Miraflores Church after service last week, President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru drew his pistol and pointed it at one Jose Melgar, for the good reason that this tall, pale youth had just fired a bullet into the President's chest...
Alighting at Naval Headquarters extremely vexed, Mr. Robison tried to lodge complaint, was pushed in the chest by a Japanese civilian wearing a police armband who shouted: "I am a Japanese. Don't!" Previously the Japanese Consul General had given official assurances that there were now no more Japanese "armband police" in Shanghai, but four of them set upon Mr. Robison, striking him with their fists while Japanese bluejackets laughed...
Constables King and McDowell went out to ask Albert Johnson a few questions. They knocked on the cabin door, but Albert Johnson did not answer. Three bullets splintered the door and smashed into Constable King's chest. McDowell did not wait. He dragged his friend to their sledge and cracked his snake whip as loud as Hermit Johnson's rifle. Tongues out, the husky dogs plunged forward. They made the 100 miles back to Aklavik in 20 hours. It was a record and it saved Constable King's life...
Speaker Garner said nothing, kept his cards to his chest and waited for the excitement to die down. Direct relief, even if inevitable, was still many a long political mile away...