Bernard Parrillo, 20, of 19 Fletcher Ave., Cranston, was admitted to Roger Williams Hospital shortly before 11:30 a.m. yesterday after a hunting accident in which a shotgun he was carrying discharged against his heel.

John Merryman, a leader in the secessionist group in Maryland, petitioned Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to issue a writ of habeas corpus, saying holding Merryman without a hearing was unlawful.

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were " so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ".

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd killer was suggested by brother-in-law James Watt.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd he allowed the murderer to escape justice through suicide and then ensured the truth was never known to spare the feelings of the murderer's relatives.

If the Labours precede the events in Roger Ackroyd, then the Roger Ackroyd case must have taken place around twenty years later than it was published, and so must any of the cases that refer to it.

Such a feat was also attributed to Roger Bacon.

Spanish midfielder Roger was the last player to wear the number.

This massive text, which Roger Bacon would later sarcastically describe as weighing as much as a horse, was unfinished at his death ; his students, William of Middleton and John of Rupella, were charged with its completion.

The production was directed by Stuart Maunder, designed by Roger Kirk, and conducted by Andrew Greene.

The Stadium was the scene Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech in 1939, Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Roger Maris ' record breaking 61st home run in 1961, and Reggie Jackson's 3 home runs to clinch Game 6 of the 1977 World Series.

Aged 15, she appeared on an 8 March 1950 cover of ELLE and was noticed by a young film director, Roger Vadim, while babysitting.

Roger Vadim ( her husband at the time ) was not content with this light fare.

Brigitte Bardot and Sami Frey in Saint-Tropez, 1963. On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Bardot was married to director Roger Vadim.

Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season ( 1927 ), a mark first eclipsed by Roger Maris in 1961 with 61.

Club captain Roger Byrne was also killed, along with Mark Jones, Billy Whelan, Eddie Colman and Geoff Bent.

Charlton opened the scoring with a crisp side-footed finish after a run by Roger Hunt had forced the Portuguese goalkeeper out of his net ; his second was a sweetly struck shot after a run and pull-back from Geoff Hurst.

Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

One of Lane's early trades in Cleveland was to send Roger Maris to the Kansas City Athletics in the middle of 1958.

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

Roger Sherman Loomis believed it was derived from Cavalon, a place name that he suggested was a corruption of Avalon ( under the influence of the Breton place name Cavallon ).

Other early influential members included Christopher Hutt, author of Death of the English Pub, who succeeded Hardman as chairman, Frank Baillie, author of The Beer Drinker's Companion, and later the current Good Beer Guide editor, Roger Protz.

In 1127, his son Roger II of Sicily succeeded.

The death of Roger in February 1154, who was succeeded by William I, combined with the widespread rebellions against the rule of the new King in Sicily and Apulia, the presence of Apulian refugees at the Byzantian court, and Frederick Barbarossa's ( Conrad's successor ) failure to deal with the Normans encouraged Manuel to take advantage of the multiple instabilities that existed in the Italian peninsula.

By the time of his death at the age of 58, Roger had succeeded in uniting all the Norman conquests in Italy into one kingdom with a strong centralized government.

Nichols would serve two term from 1957 to 1965 he was succeeded by Roger F. Theisen in 1965.

Roger finally regained royal favour when Richard I succeeded to the throne in 1189.

In 1946, Fred Seitz, then head of the physics department at Carnegie Tech, brought Ed Creutz ( who later succeeded Seitz as department head ), Jack Fox ( who succeeded Creutz as department head ), Roger Sutton ( who succeeded Creutz as director of the Saxonburg Nuclear Research Center ) and Bert Corben to Carnegie Tech to establish an important nuclear physics research program.

De Gray was elected Bishop of Norwich on about 7 September 1200, although the election was purely pro forma, as acknowledged by a contemporary writer Roger of Howden, who stated that the new bishop " succeeded to the bishopric of Norwich by the gift of King John ".

Guiscard was succeeded by Roger Borsa, his son by Sichelgaita ; Bohemund, his son by an earlier Norman wife Alberada, being set aside.

Roger ruled England while Henry was in Normandy, and succeeded in obtaining the see of Canterbury for his nominee, William de Corbeil.

Roger Adams was elected president and served as President and Editor-in-Chief until he was succeeded in both positions by Arthur C. Cope in 1960 with the publication of Volume 11.

Walter died in a construction accident at Hereford in 1085 and was succeeded by his son, Roger de Lacy.

This visit was made necessary because Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who had succeeded Brock as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, was ill and unable to perform his various duties.

Tancred died in 1112 and was succeeded by Bohemond II, under the regency of Tancred's nephew Roger of Salerno, who defeated a Seljuk attack in 1113.

He was the son of Hugh Bigod ( 1211-1266 ), Justiciar, and succeeded his father's elder brother Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk ( 1209-1270 ) as 5th Earl of Norfolk in 1270.

Roger had no children, and was succeeded by his nephew Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk ( 1245-1306 ).

He took the position in 1989 and was succeeded by Roger Goodell, who was elected to the position on August 8, 2006.

Only Roger Federer ( 6 times ), Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl ( 5 times ) succeeded to win more.

On no known authority, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris state that Sledd directly succeeded his father on his death in 587.

José Gómez is the current Archbishop of Los Angeles, having automatically succeeded his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony who served for 25 years, upon the latter's retirement which took effect on March 1, 2011.

Masquerading, on his own initiative, as a German intelligence colonel attempting to defect the Allies, he deceived Marsac and his associate Roger Bardet, and in April 1943 succeeded in capturing SOE agents Peter Churchill and Odette Sansom.

Chancellor moved to the role of commentator in 1982 and was succeeded by a team of Tom Brokaw in New York and Roger Mudd in Washington.