Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Eldridge Reeves Johnson, wife of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., on board a yacht anchored in the Johnson yacht basin at Bridgeboro, N. J., dropped a $2,000 bracelet overboard in 20 ft. of water, hired a diver to hunt...
...sons at the cabin of Tom's brother John. John fired on them, killed white Charles Marrs. The posse killed John, burned his cabin down. Two carloads of other Alabamans went by train to Emelle to help find Jacob, Tom and Oliver. On their hunt they shot dead in a small railway station at Narkeeta an unidentified Negro who refused to be searched and fired at them. They also shot and killed Mrs. Jessie Dill whose husband drove hastily past them after he had been told to halt...
...making this announcement the Dutch officials stressed that Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, "greatly, moved," had ordered her Governor of Dutch New Guinea to hunt down the cannibals without mercy. Native runners presently reported that members of the Dutch East Indian police had overtaken and routed a large war-party of the cannibals-recovered several women...
Following many trails, police placed most faith in their hunt for Mad Joseph Ustica, escaped inmate of the Kings Park State Asylum for the Insane, who was sent there after he had killed a man accompanied by a woman, and who continuously had babbled about secret papers and codes...
Winner just before the thunderclap of the Royal Hunt Cup was The MacNab, a 100 to 7 shot owned by John Arthur Dewar, nephew and heir of whiskey's Baron Dewar whose title died with him (TIME, April 21). In cinema theatres throughout Britain the flashed news that "their Majesties were standing a very short distance from where the lightning struck" led to much fervent singing of "God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King...