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...connection. Reporter Koethe was a beer-drinking bully who liked to hang out with thugs; he had been strangled, not "karate chopped," and police suggested that homosexuality may have been a motive. Hunter was shot accidentally by an exhibitionistic detective he had known closely for years while the cop was clowning foolishly with a revolver in the station pressroom. As for Tom Howard, according to others who were there, he was not even at Ruby's apartment that night...
...Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest. All of which goes a long way toward explaining why the highway patrol last year caught a record 3,500 speeders...
...dying from their own air bombs or artillery fire, says Marshall, are also "dependable bell ringers." Such incidents occurred more often in previous wars, but reporters never made so much of them. Now, "if one correspondent could compile a large enough file of writings about these accidents, he might cop the Pulitzer Prize...
...scienter (to know), the requirement that a smut seller must have "guilty knowledge" that his wares are obscene before he is criminally liable. In a New York case, Times Square Bookstore Clerk Robert Redrup was convicted of selling paperbacks titled Lust Pool and Shame Agent to a plainclothes cop who asked him why he sold such "garbage." Said Redrup: "There's worse stuff around." Redrup argues that his comment failed to prove scienter...
...month of August. In no case was the victim said to be armed with more than a knife, or evne, where he did have a knife, to be close enough to the policeman to have used it. Some policemen have garnered reputations as slayers of Ne- groes, and one cop has placidly referred to a colleague as "Killer...