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...Aiken County, S. C., Farmer George Jackson ran amok, slew two of his uncles, an aunt, three cousins. He was convicted, sentenced to electrocution July 29. Last week 15 of George Jackson's surviving relatives petitioned Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood not to reprieve...
Next day Keeper Mott died of his wounds. He was the second zookeeper killed at work this month. Last fortnight, Sunshine, the Russian brown bear in Cleveland's zoo, slew Keeper Thomas Earl (TIME, July 18). For his crime. Sunshine was shot to death. Because blue gnus are rare & costly, murderous Big Nick was not killed, but sentenced to isolation for life...
Earl shouted at him. Suddenly Sunshine turned on his keeper, hugged him tight with one foreleg, clawed him viciously with the other. Keeper Earl shouted for help, wrestled for his life. Guards came running, fired shot after shot at the mad bear. Three shots struck Keeper Earl, the 30th slew the bear. Physicians examining the keeper's body found his lungs ripped open, his intestines bared by great claw strokes. They decided that the bear, not the bullets, had slain Keeper Earl...
Cynical, experienced in Balkan wiles, the Rumanian police reconstructed the 41 murders thus: the woman lured the 40 men one by one to the villa of her man who slew each, robbed the corpse. Finally he slew her on the old Rumanian theory that "Dead women tell no tales...
...Mount Pleasant, N. Y. on the estate of Mrs, Harold Fowler McCormick Jr. ("Fifi" Stillman), a pack of hungry dogs attacked a herd of sheep, slew 18. Extra guards were posted around the neighboring estate of Mr. McCormick's grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller...