Good morning, Whitewater.
Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-two. Sunrise today is 5:22 AM and sunset 8:19 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with just twenty-seven percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1934, notorious bank robbers and murderers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet their end in Louisiana:
Shreveport, La., May 23 — Clyde Barrow, notorious Texas “bad man” and murderer, and his cigar-smoking, quick-shooting woman accomplice, Bonnie Parker, were ambushed and shot to death today in an encounter with Texas Rangers and Sheriff’s deputies.
The 24-year-old desperado, who was accused of twelve murders in the last two years, and his companion whizzed along a little-traveled, paved road near Gibsland, about fifty miles east of here, at eighty-five miles an hour in a high-speed gray automobile, rushing into a carefully-laid death trap.
Before they could use any of the weapons in the small arsenal they had with them, the Rangers and others in the posse riddled them and their car with a deadly hail of bullets.
The onrushing machine, with the dead man at the wheel, careened crazily for an instant and then catapulted into an embankment. While the wheels of the wrecked machine still whirled, the officers, taking no chances with the gunman who had tricked them so often, poured another volley of bullets into the machine.
On this day in 1854, a transportation first for Madison:
1854 – First Railroad Reaches Madison
On this date the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad reached Madison, connecting the city with Milwaukee. When the cars pulled into the depot, thousands of people gathered to witness the ceremonial arrival of the first train, and an enormous picnic was held on the Capitol grounds for all the passengers who’d made theseven-hour trip from Milwaukee to inaugurate the line. [Source: Waukesha Chronicle, May 24, 1854;Wisconsin State Journal, June 1, 1924]
Puzzability‘s Paying Tribute series concludes with Friday’s game:
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This Week’s Game — May 19-23
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Paying Tribute
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For each day of our parade this Memorial Day week, we started with a word, added the eight letters in MEMORIAL, and rearranged all the letters to get the name of a famous person. Both pieces are described in each day’s clue, with the shorter one first.
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Example:
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Computer failure; Miami Heat point guard
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Answer:
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Crash; Mario Chalmers
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What to Submit:
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Submit both pieces, with the shorter one first (as “Crash; Mario Chalmers” in the example), for your answer.
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Friday, May 23
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