Virgil had been appointed Tombstone's town marshal ( i. e., chief of police ) on June 6, 1881, after Ben Sippy abandoned the job.

During the course of the evening three others who visit the house: a stranded motorist ( Jeffrey Kramer ), a police officer ( Bill Henderson ) investigating the motorist's abandoned car, and a singing telegram girl ( Jane Wiedlin ), are all killed with the wrench, the lead pipe, and the revolver ; in the lounge, the library, and the front hall, respectively.

Parker's reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a playful snapshot found by police at an abandoned hideout, released to the press, and published nationwide ; while she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker.

The couple's notoriety in 1933 came from photos found by police as undeveloped film in a hastily abandoned hideout in Joplin, Missouri.

Early devices for lie detection include an 1895 invention of Cesare Lombroso used to measure changes in blood pressure for police cases, a 1904 device by Vittorio Benussi used to measure breathing, and an abandoned project by American William Marston which used blood pressure to examine German prisoners of war ( POWs ).

Between 17 April 1998, when the police abandoned the investigation, and Shipman's eventual arrest, he killed three more people.

In 792 universal conscription was abandoned, and district heads were allowed to establish private militia forces for local police work.

* The town of Swindon abandoned the use of fixed cameras in 2009, questioning their cost effectiveness with the cameras being replaced by vehicle activated warning signs and enforcement by police using mobile speed cameras: in the nine months following the switch-off there was a small reduction in accident rates which had changed slightly in similar periods before and after the switch off ( Before: 1 fatal, 1 serious and 13 slight accidents.

All abandoned calls are checked by the police.

The robbers forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned.

Biographers have attributed most of his brutish and eccentric nature to the fact that he was abandoned by his father, an Oakland police officer and overly coddled by his mother, Lydia, who was married six times.

Gil hides from the police in an abandoned prison, and Roger, who is in love with Gil, establishes contact between Querelle and Gil in the hopes that Querelle can help Gil flee.

Riot police had to come in and the game was abandoned.

While the first few episodes contain elements of a standard police procedural, the producers soon abandoned them in favor of a more distinctive style.

Poirot persuades the police to dig up an abandoned well in the Quarry Garden.

" While John L. Tobias says that the Crees tried to demonstrate their " peaceful intent " by including women and children in their group, simply took food to sustain themselves after finding the town abandoned, and then withdrew to avoid conflict with the police.

He began a career in mechanical engineering, but abandoned it in 1883 and instead entered the Victorian public service, working as a clerk in the police department.

While chasing after the unknown sniper through an abandoned building, a rookie police officer fatally shoots Alek J. Hidell ( a known alias of JFK killer Lee Harvey Oswald ), a minor anti-establishment figure and minority, in the head.

The custom was abandoned in the 19th century after a campaign by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the intervention of military and police.

On September 16, 1923, in the chaos immediately following the Great Kantō earthquake, according to writer and activist Harumi Setouchi, Itō, Ōsugi, and his 6 year old nephew were arrested, beaten to death and thrown into an abandoned well by a squad of military police led by Lieutenant Masahiko Amakasu.

The breaches include the abandoned game against Forest Green and the cancelling of a game due to an unpaid police bill.

In 2004, the police found some abandoned weaponry, clothing and jewelry in the Bois de la Houssière, the forest where the three main suspects were spotted for the last time in 1985.

He found his answer in the activities of police officers who had to decide whether cars were abandoned ( see Garfinkel: 2002: 186-187 ).

Sometime later in Washington, Jesse ( Jason James Richter ), a young 12-year-old boy who has been on the streets since he was abandoned by his mother six years before, gets caught by the police for stealing food and vandalizing a theme park, along with a group member of three other abandoned children.

The experiment was abandoned the following season.

Cinchona plants were introduced in 1868 by Charles Elliot ( 1863 – 1870 ) with a view to exporting quinine but the experiment was abandoned by his successor Governor C. G. E. Patey ( 1870 – 1873 ), who also embarked on a programme of reducing the civil establishment.

The local marble was also used in 1836 to form the track bed of the Padonia Road section of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad ( which later became part of the Northern Central Railway ); the use of marble instead of wood was an experiment that was soon after abandoned.

The experiment was abandoned after New York State removed the North Tonawanda component from the village.

In light of the controversy surrounding the sludge and possible drill contamination, Gold abandoned the project at Gravberg-1, calling it a " complete fiasco ", and redesigned the experiment by replacing his oil-based drilling lubricant with a water-based one.

Under his influence he abandoned the short brushstrokes of impressionism to experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure color, intended to combine and blend not on the canvas but in the viewer's eye, the defining feature of pointillism.

To ease the stress on his deteriorating knees, Piazza began to split his time between catching and playing first base during the season, an experiment which was abandoned before the end of the season because of Piazza's defensive deficiencies.

The experiment was abandoned with the 1908 issue.

Although given Whiteway soon abandoned Tolstoy's principles, it has been regarded by many, including Gandhi who visited in 1909, as a failed Tolstoyan experiment.

Once steel cleats became unpopular on paved roads, in 1938 a limited experiment began to bridge the gap between truck and tractor, a " convertible vehicle " patented by Phillip Sloan, the C5 Catruk, suffered design flaws and limited production before it was finally abandoned.

The experiment was abandoned on the grounds that having two games watered down the appeal of the event.

This was not only a result of their ( often explicit ) sexual content, but also because they deliberately abandoned the conventions of classical Greek sculpture favoured by European Academic sculptors to experiment instead with the aesthetics of art traditions as diverse as those of India, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands.

Initially the rubrics — the headings before each book of the Bible — were printed, but this experiment was quickly abandoned, and gaps were left for rubrication to be added by hand.

After running a small number of trials variously described as being between Paris and Vincennes and at Meudon, the project was abandoned and the French Army's experiment with mechanical vehicles came to an end.

No set pattern has been established for the clubs use of blue and white as main colours, at various times playing in a white jersey with a blue band and blue shorts ; blue jersey with white pin stripes and white shorts ; a short experiment with an Argentina-style kit, light blue & white stripes with black shorts, after the 1978 World Cup, which was abandoned after the outbreak of the Falklands War ;

Unfortunately, all of them died, and the experiment was abandoned.

MLS abandoned this experiment in 2000.

In 1868 the experiment — meant to be the first Indian reservation west of Indian Territory — was abandoned.

Joske's experiment with sugar cane was abandoned quickly and he successfully returned to growing more stable crops.

As the colony abandoned Tolstoy's philosophy it has been regarded by many, including Mohandas Gandhi who visited in 1909, as a failed Tolstoyan experiment.

A brief 1990s experiment with a six trains each way a day service in high season was abandoned on grounds of cost.

A 1979 experiment by South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive with buses manufactured by MAN and Leyland-DAB led to a change in the law, but the experiment was abandoned in 1981 because double-decker buses were generally considered less expensive both to purchase and to operate.

Wide tyres and downforce quickly proved to be superior means of increasing grip, and the technology was largely abandoned, although Lotus continued to experiment with the idea for a few more years.

The experiment was a failure and soon abandoned.