Word: possemen
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...carloads of possemen just went to the bridge. The police are making local whites get indoors. SNCC's Annie Pearl Avery was just arrested--don't know what for. She just passed by in a police car. Two local white guys were also arrested. Three doctors and six or seven nurses from the Medical Committee for Human Rights, also three ambulances are there...
...Francisco's possemen are the best drilled. Probably the most swashbuckling group of two-gun capitalists that ever pulled a bootstrap, its 35 members include George J. O'Brien, treasurer of Standard Oil Company of California; Roy Bronson, attorney for Aluminum Company of America; Charles S. Howard Jr., son of Seabiscuit's owner; Tom Bacon, for whose grandfather the University of California's Bacon Hall is named; Bob Holliday, ex-publisher of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin...
...Canadian ex-mounties and U.S. Cavalry officers. At civic celebrations they stage precision drills, trick riding, other stunts. They perform at San Francisco's annual East-West football game on New Year's Day, have appeared at State fairs, roundups, rodeos. Last week San Francisco's possemen were the feature attraction at the Pacific International Horse Show & Rodeo at Portland...
...suspect was a Negro named Arthur Collick. Two days later two civilian possemen spotted him emerging from a swamp. With him were two women. The posse caught the women, but Collick escaped, plunging back into the cypress growth. The prisoners were Lillian Blake, Collick's common-law wife, and her 14-year-old daughter Martha. The two were taken to the county jail at Snow Hill, locked...
...cautiously encircle his hideout. After a time, two riflemen (Orville Linabary, 42; Arthur Argento, 46) started across a clearing directly toward him. They had their nerve with them. He let them come within 50 paces, then quickly gave them each a bullet in the belly. None of the other possemen dared show himself, not even to get the dead. The canyon fell silent. Day died...