Word: ganges
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...police called attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a blow, by custom, that all may be equally guilty and none tempted to betray the others...
...ultimate issue in the case is obviously whether the two defendants were or were not members of a murder gang which drove into South Braintree one day in April, 1920, killed a paymaster, and made off with a payroll. The evidence directly connecting them with the crime was of the slightest. It is generally admitted that no connection has ever been established between them and any gang, and they have shown no signs of sudden enrichment. Their identification as persons who participated in the crime rested solely on the contradicted testimony of unreliable witnesses who claimed to have seen them...
After the case went to the Supreme Court new evidence was produced in the form of a confession by a member of a notorious criminal gang that the crime was committed by this gang. This was made the basis of another motion for a new trial which was likewise denied by the trial judge and from this ruling another appeal is now pending in the Supreme Court; but once more the Supreme Court will be faced only with the extremely narrow question of whether or not it can say that the trial judge in derying the motion went...
...lads amuse themselves throwing rocks, shooting craps, fighting gang against gang with clubs, stones, bottles, telling jokes, holding a section of street against invasion by a rival gang, stealing, cop-baiting, hanging around poolrooms, attending cheap cinema shows, begging pennies, playing poker, drinking liquor, accepting the solicitations of older uptown girls...
...death an indefatigable traveler, had arrived safely at Johannesburg, South Africa, after a 4,000-mile motor trip from the Mediterranean shore of the continent, through the interior, accompanied by no white escort save her cousin, a Miss Hooper. Despatches related how, camping one night near a native road gang, Mrs. Cornish heard a man-eating lion roar, then die of bullets; how, lost in wildest Ukamba, her reserve machine broke down, obliging her to sit up amidst zebras, gazelles, hyenas until midnight, when rescuers came. Mrs. Cornish traveled unarmed...