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...Shame! Shame on Uncle José!" teased the tots. Slowly the marksman grew livid, lowered his rifle until it pointed to the nearest of his teasers, squeezed trigger, put bullet into brain. As the other children scattered, screaming, poor José knew no better than to chase and shoot them down one by one. With his last shot he wounded a peasant who had rushed up brandishing an axe. As the man, for whom he had often worked for nothing, fell, Poor José seized his axe and split his head in twain...
...went home to await the arrival of his wife. Miami and Miami Beach police, speculating on the likelihood of their being ordered to roust Mr. Capone and send him away, surveyed a high wall which has been built around the Capone house; reflected upon the quickness and brutality of trigger-fingers from Chicago. Mayor J. N. Lummus Jr., of Miami Beach wondered what to do. His real estate firm had sold the house to an intermediary, knowing well it would be turned over to Capone...
...awarded the British War Office prize of $15,000 and will now be tried generally throughout the British Army. A rifle for each soldier to carry, to fire aimed shots from the shoulder without pausing to reload, the Thompson self-loader differs from a machine gun in that the trigger is pulled for each shot instead of held down for a continuous stream of lead. Rid of the necessity for bolting a new cartridge into the firing chamber between shots, as in hand-loading rifles, a soldier can aim 25 or 30 shots per minute with the Thompson self-loader...
...Still more daring was a subsea voyage performed by Amir Amanullah in the British submarine L-22, off Southampton. When invited to fire a dummy torpedo, His Majesty pulled the trigger with apparent trepidation, but soon rallied and fired a second torpedo...
...word. Then he smacked the pig's nose with all his might. At this the pig squealed more loudly and sadly. James Ledbetter went into his grandfather's house, seized a large rifle, pushed the muzzle close to the pig's heart, pulled the trigger and despatched...