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...people steal, cheat, and kill?" he asked his audience. "Does punishment keep them from doing, these things? So far the world have always been poor," and with wonderful irony, "rich people don't go to jail because they are all good...
...mean, Signor Zaniboni, that you would have fired with intention to hit and kill 77 Capo del Governo...
...Oregon Stanley Jewett, predatory animal director for the U. S. biological survey, last week sent out four official hunters to kill off coyotes, which have been biting and infecting live stock with rabies. At Bear Valley, Ore., Raymond Vancil's horse, a grass-eater, suddenly tried to bite his master's leg, then dashed through three wire fences, before the man could rope, throw and kill it. Near Izee, Ore., Elmer Angell's cow, gone mad, chased him off his hay wagon and into his house...
...Ilkeston, England, one William Knighton, miner, killed his mother with unwonted despatch and skill. He knew neither how nor why he came to kill her, he explained to the officers who arrested him, only that he found himself committing the murder. Because his explanation jibes with psychologists' theory of "automatism,"* British Home Secretary Sir Joynson-Hicks last week canceled the man's execution and ordered the Criminal Appellate Court to search for extenuating evidence...
Accident or Plot? One group of spokesmen for Henry Ford announced that he regards the crash merely as an accident caused by a drunken driver or a roadhog. The other spokesmen said that Mr. Ford believes a deliberate attempt was made to kill him. The details of the crash, the secrecy in which it was kept for three days, the elaborate precautions in bringing Mr. Ford home from the hospital (two ambulances, two stretchers), the heavily increased guard about the Ford home?all tend to confirm the plot theory, which Mr. Ford is said to have dropped...