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... killed by lightning ? It is estimated on the basis of the imperfect statistics avail- able that only one person out of about two hundred thousand dies each year in the United States as the result of being struck by lightning . The ...
... killed by lightning ? It is estimated on the basis of the imperfect statistics avail- able that only one person out of about two hundred thousand dies each year in the United States as the result of being struck by lightning . The ...
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... killing at the age of twelve when he killed a man alleged to have insulted his mother . At the age of sixteen he helped another man kill three Indians in order to get some furs in their possession . During the next two years he took ...
... killing at the age of twelve when he killed a man alleged to have insulted his mother . At the age of sixteen he helped another man kill three Indians in order to get some furs in their possession . During the next two years he took ...
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... killing Sheriff James A. Brady . Although shackled with handcuffs and leg irons the desperado killed two deputies guarding him at Lin- coln and escaped . Several months later he was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat . F. Garrett of Lincoln ...
... killing Sheriff James A. Brady . Although shackled with handcuffs and leg irons the desperado killed two deputies guarding him at Lin- coln and escaped . Several months later he was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat . F. Garrett of Lincoln ...
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