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...moving trigger-finger writes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: One Big Shot | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...gradually getting the better of him. I came too near the scuffle and Gillard grabbed the gun. He couldn't pull it out of my hand, but swung it towards his wife and children at the end of the room and tried to get at the trigger to shoot his wife. He grabbed my hand and in the struggle the gun, for a cause unknown to me, went off and shot Gillard. Another lie of yours is that I have a brass plate on the dining room floor with "To The Memory of a Faithful Servitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 2, 1930 | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Belief that Serbian assassins are still quickest on the trigger was fortified, last week, by the conduct of Mme. Darinka Radojevitch, socially prominent and temperamental wife of a leading Belgrade builder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patriots & Princip | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Limited bags are due because the tendency is to stop the barrel when the trigger is pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Shore, L. I., William Leach, hunter, rested his gun on the floor of an automobile, the barrel under his armpit. His dog placed its paw on the trigger, fired a charge into Leach's shoulder, fracturing his right collar bone and shoulder blade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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