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...Some 200 bullets whined through the dark. These random shots did not stop the runaway but they: 1) startled Mrs. Robert V. Latham, sitting up in bed aboard her husband's houseboat, one shot missing her by six inches; 2) "fanned" George D. Broughman, night watchman along the river; 3) penetrated the "parlors" of Undertaker John Gautier; 4) lodged in two houses on Miami's Flagler St.; 5) aroused hundreds of Miami sleepers; 7) stirred Miami's City Commission to consider a formal protest to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Coney Island, N. Y., one Ali Afgudiniali, a Hindu watchman, was robbed by three men. With two of them he fought bravely but when he saw that the third was a midget not more than a yard high with a huge horrible head and the hands of a pudgy baby, he tried to run away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

That telegrams to members of the council should be addressed: Watchman, Jerusalem (name of member), (and then the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Going to Jerusalem | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Died. George (Kid) Lavigne, 58, night watchman at the Ford plant, onetime (1893-1899) lightweight boxing champion; in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...matter of fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Four Men in a Fog | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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