October 10 - Spiro T. Agnew resigns as vice president of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, pleads no contest to charges of evasion of income taxes on $29,500 he received in 1967 while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
morass again, for we have left a go/good.html">good deal unexplored."
We continued our systematic survey of the edge of the sodden
rewarded. Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry
An impression like a fine bundle of telegraph wires ran.html">ran down
"My reasoning seems to have been pretty sound, Watson."
"I congratulate you."
"But we have a long way still to go. Kindly walk clear
it will not lead very far."
We found, however, as we advanced that this portion of the moor
sight of the track.html">track, we always succeeded in picking it up once more.
"Do you observe," said Holmes, "that the rider is now
Look at this impression, where you get both tyres clear.
the rider is throwing his weight on to the handle-bar,
track. Then there were a few footmarks, and the tyre.html">tyre reappeared
horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled
stains of clotted blood.
"Bad!" said Holmes. "Bad! Stand clear, Watson! Not an
he stood up, he remounted, he proceeded. But there is no other
bull? Impossible! But I see no traces of anyone else. We must
guide us he cannot escape us now."
Our search was not a very long one. The tracks of the tyre
Suddenly, as I looked ahead, the gleam of metal caught my eye
bicycle, Palmer-tyred, one pedal bent, and the whole front of it
the bushes a shoe was projecting. We ran round, and there lay
spectacles, one glass of which had been knocked out. The cause
crushed in part of his skull. That he could have gone on after
of the man. He wore shoes, but no socks, and his open coat
German master.
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