Word: hacksaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dothan, Ala.. John Sowell, ex-Texas convict was arrested, imprisoned. The Sheriff removed two hacksaw blades from his person. Later guards found his cell empty, a note: "Dear Sheriff. You miscounted...
...easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled the man out of the cab, tied a rope around his waist, lowered him head first to an ambulance which rushed him to a hospital for possible recovery...
Attacking said cow, which belongs to the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, armed only with a hacksaw and speeded by the well wishes of the mob, the Colonel outdid himself in consummating the capture alive, in contrast to his epic adventure with the skunk last spring. Fred Hoeing, notorious woodchuck tracker, Harvard's other big game hunter, last night sent the Colonel his hearty congratulations by telegraph, collect...
Again the hacksaw was used to saw through a large rivet holding the 16-pound hammer in place. Whether it was then carried out of the building or concealed within, remains a mystery...
Under allegation 18, that a prisoner who had tried to escape was found later to have rubber gloves and hacksaw blades in his room, the testimony ran thus...